zfs discuss - Oct 2008 - ZFS pool not imported on boot on Solaris Xen PV DomU

Hi,
I am trying a setup with a Linux Xen Dom0 on which runs an OpenSolaris 2008.05
DomU.
I have 8 hard disk partitions that I exported to the DomU (they are visible as
c4d[1-8]p0)
I have created a raidz2 pool on these virtual disks.
Now, if I shutdown the system and I start it again, the pool is not
automatically imported during the boot.
If I type zpool status, I can''t see it, so I do a zfs import and I see
that there is my pool that I can import, so I import it and it works.
But I wonder why it isn''t imported automatically. How is managed the
pool import during bootup ? Does solaris try to import every single pool
that''s available, or does it read some list from a file somewhere
(possibly the boot_archive) ?
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Francois Goudal wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying a setup with a Linux Xen Dom0 on which runs an OpenSolaris
2008.05 DomU.
> I have 8 hard disk partitions that I exported to the DomU (they are visible
as c4d[1-8]p0)
> I have created a raidz2 pool on these virtual disks.
> Now, if I shutdown the system and I start it again, the pool is not
automatically imported during the boot.
> If I type zpool status, I can''t see it, so I do a zfs import and I
see that there is my pool that I can import, so I import it and it works.
> But I wonder why it isn''t imported automatically. How is managed
the pool import during bootup ? Does solaris try to import every single pool
that''s available, or does it read some list from a file somewhere
(possibly the boot_archive) ?
>   
The file is /etc/zfs/zpool.cache
Unfortunately, it is not human readable, but "zdb -C" can be used to
examine its contents.
 -- richard