438200 – genkernel initramfs --zfs: /etc/zfs/zpool.cache should not be mandatory

Bug 438200 - genkernel initramfs --zfs: /etc/zfs/zpool.cache should not be mandatory

Summary: genkernel initramfs --zfs: /etc/zfs/zpool.cache should not be mandatory

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers

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Depends on:	556398
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Reported:	2012-10-13 06:45 UTC by Alexander Zubkov
Modified:	2015-08-26 17:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Alexander Zubkov 2012-10-13 06:45:06 UTC

When making initramfs with --zfs option, genkernel tries to copy /etc/zfs/zpool.cache to initramfs and fails when it can not.
This cause several problems:
1) When I specify into kernel command line exactly what pool to import and force it, there is no need in this file, but it is forced and I should "touch" it before making initramfs.
2) There can be problems if I using disk names from /dev/disk/by-ids/ instead of /dev/sd* - initramfs do not see them. But in case of using /dev/sd* I still can got problems in initramfs if I will make changes into drives configuration. So it should not rely on this cache.

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2012-11-02 16:55:53 UTC

ryao:
ZFS is your baby.

Comment 2 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev

2015-08-20 16:31:58 UTC

current genkernel handles this fine already, not sure when it was fixed, so we can just close this bug on the next stabilization request.

Comment 3 Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-08-26 17:59:57 UTC

My apologies. I fixed this a long time ago and forgot about this.