Bug#651720: new ZFS installs completely broken in Wheezy/Sid

[Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Steven Chamberlain wrote:

> Hi Arno!
>
> Sorry, I somehow didn't have 651720@bugs.debian.org copied on my
> previous mail so I'm inlining your mail for the benefit of the BTS:
>
> On 20/11/12 23:19, Arno Töll wrote:
> > I am not sure if checking for / being ZFS is good enough then. Wouldn't
> > we need to check for any file system being on ZFS to create a
> > zpool.cache file?
>
> At boot time, GRUB must provide kFreeBSD with a zpool.cache so that it
> can mount the root filesystem.  After that I don't think it matters
> about other partitions being on ZFS, because they can be scanned for, it
> just may be a little slower first time around.

The zpool.cache is no longer needed in upstream FreeBSD svn trunk, though 
this is not yet in any released version.
So, there is probably a limit on the duration this bug will be relevant 
for.

-Ben Kaduk