top of ZVOLs. The problem is that rc.d/fsck runs before rc.d/zfs. The
latter makes ZVOLs to appear in /dev/. In such case rc.d/fsck cannot
find devfs entry and aborts. We cannot simply move rc.d/zfs before
rc.d/fsck, because we first want kern.hostid to be configured (by
rc.d/hostid). If we won't wait (hostid will be 0) we can reuse disks
which are in use by different systems (eg. in SAN/NAS environment).
We also cannot move rc.d/hostid before rc.d/fsck, because rc.d/hostid on
first system start stores generated kern.hostuuid in /etc/hostid file,
so it needs root file system to be mounted read-write.
The fix is to split rc.d/hostid so that rc.d/hostid (which will now run
before rc.d/fsck) only generates hostid and sets up sysctls, but doesn't
touch root file system and rc.d/hostid_save (which is run after
rc.d/root) and only creates /etc/hostid file.
With that in place, we can move ZVOL initialization to dedicated
rc.d/zvol script which runs before rc.d/fsck.
PR: conf/120194
Reported by: James Snow <snow@teardrop.org>
Reviewed by: brooks
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 2 weeks
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