From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 10:28:11 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 370D410656D0 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:28:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arab@tangerine-army.co.uk) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61B18FC14 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.23.170.140] (helo=anti-virus02-07) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1OsvPM-0007cE-5X for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:28:08 +0100 Received: from [94.168.170.153] (helo=Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl) by asmtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1OsvPF-0002sH-HY for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:28:01 +0100 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:23:19 +0100 Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F78973929C5D4@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition? Thread-Index: ActOO5GrzPLyh4QRQRO23GDff8vxhgAOx+sp References: From: "Graeme Dargie" To: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 10:28:11 -0000 =20 ________________________________ From: Gil Vidals [mailto:gvidals@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 07/09/2010 03:55 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition? 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to = freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org Once you have installed FreeBSD 8.0 to a ufs partition have you from = your SU account have you tried zpool create ? =20 Regards =20 Graeme =20