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Date:      Fri, 22 May 2009 00:24:59 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gpart
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905220023350.53486@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <m2zld8d1ow.wl%randy@psg.com>
References:  <20090518162253.GA78829@citylink.fud.org.nz> <20090519100744.GB5943@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <m2iqjxfbsr.wl%randy@psg.com> <20090519162936.GB1457@carrot.geeknest.org> <m2r5yldnt7.wl%randy@psg.com> <20090519171030.GG78829@citylink.fud.org.nz> <m2pre5dmkz.wl%randy@psg.com> <BC7D30D0-00ED-4B07-977E-9A3D45383C9E@mac.com> <20090519190648.GD1050@camelot.theinternet.com.au> <m2zld8d1ow.wl%randy@psg.com>

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On Tue, 19 May 2009, Randy Bush wrote:

RB> as punishment, here is yet another email
RB> 
RB> so i have it all partitioned using fixit/dist.
RB>   ad4p1 64k freebsd-boot
RB>   ad4p2	64g freebsd-zfs (to use as zfs mirror)
RB>   ad4p3 64g freebsd-swap
RB>   ad4p4 2tb freebsd-zfs (to use as raidz2)
RB> 
RB> same for ad5.  ad6 and ad7 have only p1 to join the raidz2.
RB> 
RB> but i can not build the boot zfs mirror because i can not follow the
RB> destructions at
RB> 
RB>     http://lulf.geeknest.org/blog/freebsd/Setting_up_a_zfs-only_system/
RB>     http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook
RB>     etc
RB> 
RB> because fixit/dist is a world where i can not mount the zfs pool because
RB> / is read-only md0.  so i can not set up the bootable zfs mirror system.

this can be avoided by mounting small md to local /boot/zfs and then copying 
zpool.cache to the original place. Or, you can even null-mount the "future" 
/boot/zfs to /dist/boot/zfs to have this automagically done.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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