Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost> writes: > You should be able to create the symlink in any directory and tell zfs > import which directory to use. Thanks for the great hint; it works, reduces ick, and limits scope of ick. In a directory searched via -d, all files are searched, not just whole disks. > I think that /etc/zfs is used for maintaining certain system state > information about imported pools across reboots and so I'm not overly > surprised to see that it is empty after you exported the pool. It > might just optimise the boot time import of the pool. /etc/zfs/zpool.cache has a record for each pool of where the devices are. It is deleted on export; that's a feature :-) I updated the HOWTO; see "pool importing problems". https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/
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