OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
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Brian Behlendorf 91604b298c Open pools asynchronously after module load
One of the side effects of calling zvol_create_minors() in
zvol_init() is that all pools listed in the cache file will
be opened.  Depending on the state and contents of your pool
this operation can take a considerable length of time.

Doing this at load time is undesirable because the kernel
is holding a global module lock.  This prevents other modules
from loading and can serialize an otherwise parallel boot
process.  Doing this after module inititialization also
reduces the chances of accidentally introducing a race
during module init.

To ensure that /dev/zvol/<pool>/<dataset> devices are
still automatically created after the module load completes
a udev rules has been added.  When udev notices that the
/dev/zfs device has been create the 'zpool list' command
will be run.  This then will cause all the pools listed
in the zpool.cache file to be opened.

Because this process in now driven asynchronously by udev
there is the risk of problems in downstream distributions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
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cmd Fix parse_dataset error handling 2013-07-03 09:20:52 -07:00
config Add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE to lseek()/llseek() 2013-07-02 09:24:43 -07:00
dracut Refresh dracut module setup 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
etc Improve OpenRC init script 2013-06-18 17:03:25 -07:00
include Illumos #3498 panic in arc_read() 2013-07-02 13:34:31 -07:00
lib Add error message for missing /etc/mtab 2013-06-27 14:43:37 -07:00
man Formating changes for zpool manpage 2013-06-28 11:17:36 -07:00
module Open pools asynchronously after module load 2013-07-03 09:24:38 -07:00
patches Adding grub2 mkconfig support patch 2012-07-30 16:17:23 -07:00
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.gitignore Ignore *.{deb,rpm,tar.gz} files in the top directory. 2013-04-24 16:18:59 -07:00
AUTHORS Fix minor typos and update marketing copy. 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
COPYRIGHT Refresh links to web site 2013-03-06 15:46:41 -08:00
DISCLAIMER Fix minor typos and update marketing copy. 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
META Tag zfs-0.6.1 2013-03-26 08:50:29 -07:00
Makefile.am build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 10:55:20 -07:00
OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE Add CDDL license file 2008-12-01 14:49:34 -08:00
README.markdown Fix minor typos and update marketing copy. 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
autogen.sh build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 10:55:20 -07:00
configure.ac Modified arcstat.py to run on linux 2013-06-18 15:43:15 -07:00
copy-builtin Consistent menuconfig name 2012-08-26 13:49:37 -07:00
zfs-script-config.sh.in Retire zpool_id infrastructure 2013-01-29 12:23:17 -08:00
zfs.release.in Move zfs.release generation to configure step 2012-07-12 12:22:51 -07:00

README.markdown

Native ZFS for Linux!

ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the Illumos community.

ZFS on Linux, which is also known as ZoL, is currently feature complete. It includes fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL layers.

Full documentation for installing ZoL on your favorite Linux distribution can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org