From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 3 21:15:47 2011 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 1A4761065686 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:15:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from levitch@iglou.com) Received: from rdsmtp.iglou.com (rdsmtp.iglou.com [192.107.41.63]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975E48FC18 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:15:46 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=iglou.com; s=alpha; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=q0V3hSYtqVxt6eHhxIkBMYZaR6iMowo7YkryvXmDLkU=; b=dX5k2JYP0xbwmcqXIpbDXL7dmhn4oOpJqrrzvVSFmjtcTfEAcc88PtpYOrwunr93IF7Dw0tfLA/TDHguGj3CsAK++CvdVBXOxzgssY6ULI6bPyl9baIAJd2q6446jRnV50m5CGzeZOtqZUvXMVJQwCwkgB3H4sHmSUDQfc6GtO4=; Received: from iglou1.iglou.com ([192.107.41.3]:63653 helo=mail.iglou.com) by rdsmtp.iglou.com with esmtpa (Exim MTA/8.19.3) (envelope-from ) id 1QSbB4-0006lB-CK by authid with igloumta_auth for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:41:06 -0400 Received: from shell1.iglou.com ([192.107.41.17]:33351 helo=shell1) by mail.iglou.com with esmtps (TLS cipher TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim MTA/8.19.3) (envelope-from ) id 1QSbB3-0001wl-Tu for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:41:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:41:05 -0400 (EDT) From: levitch@iglou.com X-X-Sender: levitch@shell1 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Originating-IP: 192.107.41.17 X-IgLou-Customer: 3cb6f76205bd20f518810676a67a982b Subject: failure to create zfs storage pool 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: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:15:47 -0000 Hello, After getting a couple of Hitachi 1T 7200 rpm drives, it seemed like time for ZFS on FreeBSD82, having not had Z file system subsequent to retiring whatever OpenSolaris was around. Basically, I followed this article: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/installation.html Previous to this, I had been using sysinstall. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 count=2 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6 count=2 fdisk -BI ad4 fdisk -BI ad6 bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad4s1 bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad6s1 ------------------------------------------------- bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1 a: 1G 16 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 b: 5G * swap c: blah,blah d: 20G * 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 e: 20G * 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 f: * * unused 0 0 ------------------------------------------------- bsdlabel /dev/ad4s1 > /tmp/bsdlabel.txt && bsdlabel -R \ /dev/ad6s1 /tmp/bsdlabel.txt Now it was way past midnight, I cannot recall but might have run this: gmirror label -nb round-robin gm0 ad4s1 ad6s1 I ran these: gmirror label root ad4s1a ad6s1a gmirror label var ad4s1d ad6s1d gmirror label usr ad4s1e ad6s1e gmirror label -F swap ad4s1b ad6s1b gmirror load newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/mirror/root newfs /dev/mirror/var newfs /dev/mirror/usr mount /dev/mirror/root /mnt mkdir /mnt/var /mnt/usr mount /dev/mirror/var /mnt/var mount /dev/mirror/usr /mnt/usr So I got the files with 'ftp passive' and followed the article all to the 'reboot' command. Seemed okay. Now at the next page of the article: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/zfs.html Having read several articles and the zpool manual page, I still have failed to create any kind of ZFS storage pool. Darrel