Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:17:20 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on entire disks setup Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910292115080.41947@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <6A973ECE-83E7-4653-BBE7-CC3093361D19@lassitu.de> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909261534060.62389@woozle.rinet.ru> <6A973ECE-83E7-4653-BBE7-CC3093361D19@lassitu.de>
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Stefan Bethke wrote: SB> > is there a way to configure ZFS-only setup without partitions? SB> > SB> > I tried to reproduce the trick with `skip=1 seek=1024', and have SB> > loot/loader SB> > running, but it does not see the pool. SB> SB> This sequence is working for me: SB> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0 count=1 SB> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0 skip=1 seek=1024 SB> zpool create zroot /dev/da0 SB> zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot SB> cd /usr/src && make installworld installkernel distribution DESTDIR=/zroot SB> cp /boot/loader.conf /zroot/boot/loader.conf SB> cp /etc/rc.conf /zroot/etc/ SB> touch /zroot/etc/fstab SB> echo 'zfs_load="YES"' >>/zroot/boot/loader.conf SB> echo 'vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot"' >>/zroot/boot/loader.conf SB> zpool export zroot SB> zpool import zroot SB> cp /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /zroot/boot/zfs/ SB> zfs set mountpoint=legacy zroot SB> SB> ... except that it doesn't anymore. I saw this working about two months SB> ago, but now it fails to mount root. Verbose boot doesn't give any SB> indication why ZFS can't find the pool. Well, after all, I've managed to boot 8.0-RC2/amd64 from 1+0 zpool without either UFS or GPT/MBR. Will test further. As for the source of previous failure -- It seems bootfs property in my previous experiment did not set properly... -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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