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Implement -t option to zpool create for temporary pool names

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Implement -t option to zpool create for temporary pool names

Creating virtual machines that have their rootfs on ZFS on hosts that
have their rootfs on ZFS causes SPA namespace collisions when the
standard name rpool is used. The solution is either to give each guest
pool a name unique to the host, which is not always desireable, or boot
a VM environment containing an ISO image to install it, which is
cumbersome.

26b42f3f9d03f85cc7966dc2fe4dfe9216601b0e introduced `zpool import -t
...` to simplify situations where a host must access a guest's pool when
there is a SPA namespace conflict. We build upon that to introduce
zpool import -t tname .... That allows us to create a pool whose
in-core name is tname, but whose on-disk name is the normal name
specified.

This simplifies the creation of machine images that use a rootfs on ZFS.
That benefits not only real world deployments, but also ZFSOnLinux
development by decreasing the time needed to perform rootfs on ZFS
experiments.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #2417

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Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>Authored on Jun 20 2014, 11:00 PM
Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>Committed on Sep 30 2014, 5:46 PM
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rG00d2a8c92f61: zpool import -t should not update cachefile
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Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> committed rG83e9986f6eef: Implement -t option to zpool create for temporary pool names (authored by Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>).Sep 30 2014, 5:46 PM