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Date:      Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:28:02 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
Subject:   Re: ZFS on root: / is found but child datasets are not mounted
Message-ID:  <20110918122802.GA38941@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20110918114942.GC7930@felucia.tataz.chchile.org>
References:  <20110918092722.GA7930@felucia.tataz.chchile.org> <F9CD3E324BCC1C6D36B4FE6A@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20110918114942.GC7930@felucia.tataz.chchile.org>

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On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:49:42PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:40:10AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > +--On 18 septembre 2011 11:27:22 +0200 Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
> > wrote:
> > | The kernel boots fine, it finds the root filesystem, but fails miserably
> > | when running rc.d scripts because child datasets are not mounted (/var,
> > | /usr, ...).
> > |
> > | obiwan:~# cp /tmp/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache
> > | obiwan:~# grep 'zfs[:_]' /mnt/boot/loader.conf 
> > | zfs_load="YES"
> > | vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot/root"
> > 
> > What about zfs_enable="yes" in /etc/rc.conf ?
> 
> Yeah right, someone already pointed this to me in another thread.
> 
> For some reason rc.conf(5) on the ZFS disk is not there whereas all
> other files are there and identical (with the exception of fstab(5) of
> course).

If this is a "brand new install" then I imagine it's possible for
rc.conf not to exist unless you chose during sysinstall to configure the
network (which would include setting hostname="xxx", etc.) or adjust
post-installation options (sshd_enable="YES", etc.).

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, US |
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