From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 23:06:54 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 1061F10656BB for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:06:54 +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 9270A8FC15 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 23:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm4 with SMTP id 4so3969694fxm.13 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:06:52 -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 :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=C0Un09HoLzn2MjFDsX08jFbEGqVJa5BR9a2SwUnGN48=; b=U4TuIWl6dKDFwDmpACyEzFXpKDLO3T5WzD+4PH0DqKGt3oSnpWrQh8RiUyAz3Q8Muk uchFej4A6cnCiZUrIm8ENR2XuI7lCfK58c0/F30u7rxo5I9NIfN8MXSD+3Pa7VXQoBr3 +Fb/9lDDlCux7IABlZyrOJzlSO3Af2HLTNZW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=Cg6XVHvB8aHe0u+2gxHfElzpdOoCPIp2dusX76/FgfcoJqL4gqvu21CG0iPZMxnBxi Neqyoe3KfYycj3HgRcpOxIC4nUQksEj31yExGEtA6Va2eXCRXXmCFUGFDhYVUnOxngYL kMzirEuNPmsgUpwd/ECI4AvFoICiUAOte1EDA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.187.144 with SMTP id l16mr230712hbh.186.1283900812306; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:06:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.180.196 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:06:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:06:52 -0700 Message-ID: From: Gil Vidals To: Adam Vande More 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 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 23:06:54 -0000 The exact error message I get is: linker_load_file: Unsupported file type kldload: can't load zfs.ko: Exec format error. I would appreciate any additional guidance. In the meantime, Randal Schwartz was kind of enough to suggest PC-BSD, which includes an installer that supports ZFS, so I will check them out. --Gil Vidals On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > 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 >