Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:28:31 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ZFS: amd64, devd, root file system. Message-ID: <20070414202831.GI10527@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <46213380.1050209@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070409011723.GB74547@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070409094319.GB76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <46209D21.2010704@FreeBSD.org> <20070414102313.GC10527@garage.freebsd.pl> <46213380.1050209@FreeBSD.org>
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--dMdWWqg3F2Dv/qfw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:03:12PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:21:37AM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > >> It is amazingly simple to get a test setup going and it worked fine > >> in my initial simple test cases. But now I've run into problems that > >> probably are not technical but caused by a lack of understanding ... > >=20 > > This is not the first report that it doesn't work as it should. One was > > that /boot/defaults/loader.conf wasn't fresh enough, and there were no: >=20 > Hi Pawel, >=20 > thanks for the reply, I got it working with some effort, see below ... >=20 > > zpool_cache_load=3D"YES" >=20 > This is apparently implied by zfs_load=3D"YES" and redundant. No, it isn't. It is absolutely necessary. > > zpool_cache_type=3D"/boot/zfs/zpool.cache" > > zpool_cache_name=3D"/boot/zfs/zpool.cache" >=20 > These are defined in /boot/defaults/loader.conf ... zpool_cache_load=3D"YES" should be as well. I hope you didn't change it. You should not need to touch /boot/defaults/loader.conf. > This could be fixed by exporting and then importing the pool (with -f). > There after the pool could be mounted and I could manually set up the > complete file system hierarchy. I verified that "/boot/zfs/zpool.cache" > was updated during the import (written to the boot partition), but the > next reboot failed again and I again got the same error status as shown > above. Are you sure the updated file is the same file which is loaded on boot? > I made an attempt to fix it by creating another pool on an (during the > tests) unused swap partition on my "normal" UFS system disk (which I > had made an IDE slave for these tests). After copying the necessary > files over to the newly created "test2" pool on the SWAP partition I > got a system that mounted "zfs:test2" and that just worked ... >=20 > Not working: zpool create test ad0s2 > Working: zpool create test2 ad1s1b >=20 > (I.e. "test2" could be mounted automatically, while "test" required me > to boot with an UFS root and to export/import the pool before it could > be manually mounted.) >=20 > Well, after some more testing I destroyed the pool "test" and created > it on "ad0s2c" instead of "ad0s2", and voila, I had my problem solved. >=20 > It appears, that a zpool can be manually mounted if it resides on ad0s2, > but in order to make the kernel accept it during boot, it must be in a > BSD partition. Does that make sense? (I did not want to try again with > another pool in a slice, since I did not want to give up what I had just > achieved with so much effort ;-) I'm sorry, but it doesn't make sense at all:) All GEOM providers should be equal for ZFS, no matter if this is disk, slice, partition, mirror, encrypted provider or anything else. > >> Do I need fstab entries for for ZFS file systems (e.g. "test/usr") > >> or does ZFS mount them automatically when the pool "test" is mounted? > >=20 > > They are mount via rc.d/zfs script. >=20 > Oh well, I should have looked there instead of asking ;-) > Hmmm, I assume that "zfs mount -a" will ignore file systems that are > marked as "legacy", and those will instead mounted together with other > local file systems? That's right. > > For now only exports file. zpool.cache use to be there as well, but we > > need it in /boot/zfs/ to be able to have root-on-ZFS. >=20 > Yes, I see. It might be useful to make zpool.cache available in /etc/zfs > via a symlink, but this might also cause confusion or inconsistencies > and I see good reasons to maintain that file in /boot/zfs. Hmm? What for do you need zpool.cache in /etc/zfs/? This file is for ZFS internal use only, I see no reason to symlink it or do anything with it. ZFS should work in the way that you shouldn't even know it exists and we should be moving into that direction:) > Ok, it took me quite a few hours to get ZFS installed the way I wanted > it, and it seems that ad0s2 and ad0s2c are quite different with regard > to their suitability to hold ZFS pools. Was this to be expected? >=20 > Or is the diagnosis wrong and something else is responsible that it > works for me, now? I don't know what was the reason, but ad0s2/ad0s2c should make no difference... --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --dMdWWqg3F2Dv/qfw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGITlvForvXbEpPzQRAma9AKD3VIafQ1xuDXPQ7xZreJBB5EqCoACcC0UL fMNZZ/awX8I2HD816S/q0jo= =gc7I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dMdWWqg3F2Dv/qfw--
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