From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 04:50:05 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 50DA810656CE for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@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 D53B68FC1E for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so3226777fxm.13 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:50:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=weuxzBwLzuJA1u485RizVrQvOHNmmkgBpJB2MNRoHs0=; b=PhroJqwn1GX/6OodUT1ywThPMk/68bgo4vNnvRb9pbqyKL4fGMQHqn6kUFhHvCMKAS yxS856BviP5Nq9BMEAqDlPiV/f4n/6kpPzrcSz9wrMb8noNkNDXfcaBPmqYQE5MyLAgq xyrb/VOrRfqbcFcFNepC/L5jJ7M7wTS7Zp0Q4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=yFoa4qRQV4/KIcrwVoAu62KEKOOEiBbEClpk7gJQEigb7wqsXoefSxl2LGKCrpIXZO SwKHbw+Bmvu0jJRrO3mmuabrwE1vtMTyf0IdHbYwVVoU7M5bcDdtgn4CywKn1ip6tGp5 yI+kSiVqrZ810SswctWCtxljUBmCeKCFprzc0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.120.70 with SMTP id c6mr3300769far.40.1283835003591; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.57.20 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:50:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 23:50:03 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: gil@vidals.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:50:05 -0000 On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Gil Vidals wrote: > 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. > That doesn't seem like a logical error, the only occurrence of the "unsupported file system" text in the src tree is in /usr/src/sbin/ggate/shared/ggate.c. Can you be more specific about the steps you are taking to reach this error, and it's exact message. Is there away to install FreeBSD on the standard UFS file system and then > use the other disks on the server for ZFS? > That's a very common approach. -- Adam Vande More