From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 14 18:44:35 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 953BC106566C; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:44:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDC08FC16; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (adsl-157-60-44.bna.bellsouth.net [70.157.60.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nAEIiQNf050281 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:44:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rnoland@FreeBSD.org) From: Robert Noland To: Krzysztof Dajka In-Reply-To: <684e57ec0911140115oa5d3c63xec7b2913847ce2c6@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AD710D6.70404@buchlovice.org> <1258087983.2303.23.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <1258122354.2303.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4AFDBFFB.3070009@freebsd.org> <684e57ec0911140115oa5d3c63xec7b2913847ce2c6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: FreeBSD Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:44:21 -0600 Message-Id: <1258224261.2303.31.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RDNS_DYNAMIC,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Radek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Val=E1=B9ek?= , Matt Reimer , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT boot with ZFS RAIDZ "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" 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: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:44:35 -0000 On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:15 +0100, Krzysztof Dajka wrote: > Thanks Matt for the patch. I used it with 8.0RC3 release. I installed > FreeBSD under Linux (KVM) my 3x500GB drives were mounted as a scsi > drives. Installation went smoothly but when I rebooted FreeBSD guest > it hang as usual ;) with "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies > unavailable", well it also spit out some LBA errors for the first > time. I was a little disappointed, because I've been trying for three > weeks to replace my Debian system with broken ext3 fs with FreeBSD on > raidz. But I thought to myself I'll give it a try, and run FreeBSD > native. To my suprise it welcomed me with login prompt. Once again > thanks for the patch. It would be good idea to merge it with final > release. This was approved by re@ and has been merged to the release branch. It should be included in 8.0-RELEASE. robert. > On 11/13/09, Stefan Esser wrote: > > On 13.11.2009 15:25, Robert Noland wrote: > >> I think we have missed the boat, but I'll talk to re@ and see if we > >> can get it in. > > > > The patch fixed GPT/ZFS booting for me, too. It would be good to have > > it in 8.0 (since it is definitely required to boot from ZFS pools with > > non-trivial sizes), and does not affect anybody not trying to boot > > this way. OTOH, it since you cannot just install FreeBSD on pure ZFS > > from sysinstall, it might be sufficient to prominently warn about this > > problem and point at the required patch, to prevent foot-shooting. > > > > But having this patch that has been successfully tested by a number > > of people that suffered from the GPT/ZFS boot problem looks highly > > preferable to me ... > > > > Regards, STefan > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Robert Noland FreeBSD