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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:05:51 -0600
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        "Peter Thoenen" <peter.thoenen@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Various Issues with 7.0-BETA4
Message-ID:  <790a9fff0712102005y19d8bd17w6fb7c5c8394abe4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <475DADF7.6020702@yahoo.com>
References:  <475DADF7.6020702@yahoo.com>

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On 12/10/07, Peter Thoenen <peter.thoenen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Having various issues with 7.0-BETA4 and not sure where to begin.  Going
> to post multiple issues here so please bear with me.  The ultimate goal
> of course is 7.0-BETA4 working cleanly in addition to associate ports
> (e.g. I can't get xchat or java to work either (though all my others
> port do) and I think its related somehow to this)).  Feel free to point
> me at another list if applicable.
>
> EDIT: Big text attachments so I compressed.
>
> - Background: Install 7.0-BETA2 off the amd64.iso.
> - Background: / is UFS, /usr is ZFS
> - uname -a = FreeBSD ssfbsd.securestate.org 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4
> #0: Mon Dec 10 08:36:52 EST 2007
> root@ssfbsd.securestate.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> ----------------------------
>
> Issue #1:
>
> For some reason zfs_enable="YES" in rc.conf doesn't work.  It doesn't
> seem to auto mount my zfs mounts which is a PITA.  Currently I am forces
> (each time I reboot) to boot into single user mode, mount all my drives,
> then exit, continuing into multi-user mode.  The interesting this is step 3.
>
> 1) fsck -p
> 2) mount -u /
> 3) zfs
> 4) zfs mount -a
> 5) exit
>
> NOTE: If I skip #3 and immediately do #4 it mails.  For some reason I
> have to to a straight zfs call.
>
> NOTE: If I immediately go to multiuser mode skipping manually mounting
> not only does zfs not mount but I have to re-force import the tank pool
> (e.g. step 3.5: zpool import -f tank)
>
>
I ran 7.0-CURRENT (now 8.0-CURRENT) with the same setup, and I don't
need to manually mount the zfs filesystems.

Do you have zfs_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf?

This loads the zfs.ko module at boot time.

Scot



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