Debian: pool is not imported/nothing is mounted upon reboot

[yarikoptic]

jessie installation of 0.6.3; pool contains some drives (interfaced from the system board, not the LSI HBA) which are not present among by-id which forbids import of the pool via by-id. But also upon reboot if I set USE_DISK_BY_ID='no' then it would not import since it tries to use zpool.cache which gets removed (somewhere in zfs-mount stop). So I have had following change done for the case when cache file doesn't exist -- just try to import:

diff --git a/init.d/zfs-mount b/init.d/zfs-mount
index e02c414..0b6ff68 100755
--- a/init.d/zfs-mount
+++ b/init.d/zfs-mount
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ servicename=zfs-mount
 do_import()
 {
        if [ "$USE_DISK_BY_ID" == 'yes' ]; then
-               $log_begin_msg "Importing ZFS pools"
+               $log_begin_msg "Importing ZFS pools (by-id)"
                "$ZPOOL" import -d /dev/disk/by-id -aN 2>/dev/null || true # stupid zpool will fail if all pools are already imported
                RET=$?

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ do_import()

                $log_end_msg $RET
        elif [ -f "$ZPOOL_CACHE" ] ; then
-               $log_begin_msg "Importing ZFS pools"
+               $log_begin_msg "Importing ZFS pools (from $ZPOOL_CACHE)"
                "$ZPOOL" import -c "$ZPOOL_CACHE" -aN 2>/dev/null || true # stupid zpool will fail if all pools are already imported
                RET=$?

@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ do_import()
                fi

                $log_end_msg $ret
+       else
+               $log_begin_msg "Importing ZFS pools (-a)"
+               "$ZPOOL" import -aN 2>/dev/null || true # stupid zpool will fail if all pools are already imported
+               RET=$?
+
+               if [ "$RET" -eq 0 ]; then
+                       POOL_IMPORTED=1
+               fi
+
+               $log_end_msg $ret
        fi
 }

not sure against which repo to file this issue so here you are

[FransUrbo]

    if [ "$USE_DISK_BY_ID" == 'yes' ]; then

•           $log_begin_msg "Importing ZFS pools"
  

•           $log_begin_msg "Importing ZFS pools (by-id)"
          "$ZPOOL" import -d /dev/disk/by-id -aN 2>/dev/null || true # stupid zpool will fail if all pools are already imported
          RET=$?
  

  This snippet looks like 0.6.3 (not dailies). In the dailies I've almost completely rewritten the initrd scripts.

The new version is also in PR #2087.

I will not back port any fixes to 0.6.3 that isn't "life threatening" (according to 'good' Debian GNU/Linux stable update rules), so could you please close this as "won't fix"?

BTW, since this is a packaging issue, it belong(ed) to the https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs repo, but if you just close it, I'm not going to make you move it :).

[yarikoptic]

doh -- right -- forgot to state the version. yes -- 0.6.3

as for labeling -- I would not be able to do so. so one of the developers would need to. Meanwhile I consider it resolved by the #2087 which is marked for 0.6.4. Cool and thanks