Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:32:22 +0200 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> To: <oschonef@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS does not load and mount at boot time Message-ID: <20070531093222.25fde006.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <20070531072541.GA22936@mime.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> References: <20070530174944.31966e57.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20070531072541.GA22936@mime.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
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On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:25:41 +0200 <oschonef@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote about Re: ZFS does not load and mount at boot time: OUBD> > When manually running "/etc/rc.d/zfs start", zfs additionally OUBD> > complains that it may have been mounted before by a different OUBD> > host, and I have to use -f to overcome this. OUBD> > Are there any hints how to solve these issues? OUBD> If you put zfs_load="YES" into loader.conf, the module will be OUBD> loaded by the loader. If, however, the /boot/zfs/zpool.cache is not OUBD> up-to-date or not even written (in case of a ro-mount of / in OUBD> nanobsd) the filesystems will not be mounted automatically; they OUBD> have to be imported manually as decribed by another post in this OUBD> thread. I worked around that by symlinking /boot/zfs -> /etc/zfs; OUBD> therefore zpool.cache will be saved on the /etc mfs filesystem. On OUBD> shutdown, I save zpool.cache to nanobas's configuration slice. The OUBD> file will then be automatically copied to /etc/zfs by rc.diskless OUBD> and the filesystems will be mounted on boot-time. I read the thread before and tried to circumvent problems arising from this by setting /boot rw for testing purposes. However, without any change in behaviour. But I'll take a look at this again anyway, thanks for the hint. cu Gerrit
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