Re: [zfs] Mounting from (...) failed with error 19

On 20.10.2010 2:33, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> What about the attached patch?  I'm going to give it a swirl soon.  The
>> difference is that it tests whether dev begins with /dev/.
> 
> Interesting. I've been thinking about this too, but isn't
> exactly fool-proof. When devfs is the root file system,
> you can use "ufs:da0s1a" to refer to the device special
> file. It seems inconsistent to have "ufs:da0s1" fail when
> ufs:/dev/da0s1" works (a real scenario with USB based mass
> storage devices -- root mount is unheld as soon as umass
> is created, but before daX exists for it).
> 
> This patch at least covers the problem cases with a single
> strstr(), and we may get away with the inconsistency given
> above by documenting it properly.
> 
> Andrey: any thoughts?

Currently usage information in parse_dir_ask() says that device should
be specified with "/dev/". But conf0 does not use "/dev/". Also,  Marcel,
do you have any plans write some documentation with examples about using
of new features?

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov