From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 23 16:02:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2BE1065678 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk) Received: from hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk (hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk [78.33.209.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FB48FC14 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.154] (demophon.fletchermoorland.co.uk [192.168.0.154]) by hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6NG2KIt086068; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:02:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk) Message-ID: <4A68898C.8070701@fletchermoorland.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:02:20 +0100 From: Paul Wootton User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090504) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hartzell@alerce.com References: <19047.52443.164412.363239@already.local> <1E3C4A20-1B89-4C8C-912E-3CA99A427452@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: <1E3C4A20-1B89-4C8C-912E-3CA99A427452@lassitu.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 192.168.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: gptzfsboot doesn't like change (failure after swapping drives) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:02:31 -0000 Stefan Bethke wrote: > Am 23.07.2009 um 04:37 schrieb George Hartzell: > >> I've been playing around with building an 8.0BETA2 system with >> everything on a single zfs filesystem (I'll get fancier later) on a >> zpool that is a 4 disk raidz. > > Quite a few people had no luck with booting from RAIDZ volumes at > all. (Single disks and mirrors seem to work fine.) See this thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2009-July/006466.html > > > Stefan > I've been trying on and off for a few months now to get a raidz pack to boot and a few days ago finally got a working setup. I have a 3 disk raidz pack. I've only set zfs_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf. All the mountpoints are set to none and I am using /etc/fstab instead. I have the root of the working filing system as a zfs volume, and not in the base of the pool zboot 7.31G 201G 18K none (this never gets mounted) zboot/root 65.4M 201G 65.4M none (this gets mounted as /) zboot/tmp 27K 201G 27K none (this gets mounted as /tmp) zboot/usr 7.21G 201G 7.21G none (this gets mounted as /usr) zboot/var 35.4M 201G 35.4M none (this gets mounted as /var) Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fletcher Moorland Limited is a company registered in England and Wales. Registration number: 2984467. Registered office: Elenora Street, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 1QG. VAT Registration number: 478730606 Telephone: 01782 411021 | Fax: 01782 744470 | http://www.fletchermoorland.co.uk