From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 03:19:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D9E10656DF for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:19:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gvidals@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6148FC13 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so3204018fxm.13 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:18:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:reply-to:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=F0HSfMoF5fH7PE9XbIS8GsAjBpJ70JDsDrFAk4PWsLc=; b=CEDZc9+o0CHNZcXomXGKwtjcA1KSBHSmr57sIgLLdxcKa4QW41UIAPnj0YQwEpCdyM zT0q1Q6+8IM2YZNZvKPcoyzzuzolkCZHsiLnom1lPGU8eLsAeDxWI7MfqSmz5oLxri+N 6tKntKdYZyD9tlMHgcCbM1+KCIXImVUClRrIY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=JcSImF4/FsAJUOsYKSMvKD73uZB6W47dHn4pNy5yvKb3GJw8+X08eaQZJnvwhJ6B2u wQMfYA2WWz8Biupn0OOlp7c3BlBd3JHHjsbdP1RbEQDao1BDupOHrpnfTmiQnwDucOjk gjhuXp0AoSk4fp8BCXgXWZolQMe+3bCFsCE2Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.131.11 with SMTP id 11mr138950hbl.194.1283828140744; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.180.196 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:55:40 -0700 Message-ID: From: Gil Vidals To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gil@vidals.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:19:00 -0000 I'm new to both FreeBSD and ZFS and need some guidance. The only way I could get zfs to work was by installing FreeBSD directly on a freebsd-ZFS file system, which isn't supported by default by sysinstall. I had to run the zfsinstall.sh script which creates the freebsd-ZFS file system and compiles freeBSD. Whenever If I used the standard install (UFS file system), I would always get an "unsupported file system" error whenever I tried to kldload zfs.ko. Is there away to install FreeBSD on the standard UFS file system and then use the other disks on the server for ZFS? I would appreciate any hints. Thanks, Gil Vidals