From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 00:12:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06993106566B for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:12:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jw.hendy@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9A78FC0A for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jw.hendy@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b38so84202ana.13 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:12:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=+TkVmLqq8z710OGAcs7zt9Auc2SXS5MCw4GgjmFeDq0=; b=ae79Kr3YvDJ4O4sFHOglnXd0sJtBE4gUty2k08ruWo7CieG4pnJo10C3EkeGtCt7d0 f7v1G42YQFAsC2BxyA6ug6KcKPYqa0AmuAzfqZ9WMglmjb4+iiWFMmHExawtDAxNvs2t 7BTC8yv4wsIKwTF9y314qo/41xg0DA2Fu/ltU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=rHg8QxswZiYHunAFSRUJM5PvwJtkKucdUhfkHE6gAs+aJl5RcS6r9NWcnRn6t7lGxd iq4Md860nxk9z/iXgOJZzoda33CrrrG3rv4pSvc9ccZAF/Xv2vm40zFCkc5uugHgROOj SQ1jFlfmcrxZVQgHtqpYzrmOZya7L73oc9IxY= Received: by 10.100.197.3 with SMTP id u3mr5290395anf.64.1232496777283; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:12:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.231.10 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:12:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:12:57 -0600 From: "John Hendy" To: "Boris Kotzev" In-Reply-To: <200901202101.27544.boris.kotzev@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200901202101.27544.boris.kotzev@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OS X/FreeBSD shared zfs partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:12:59 -0000 Oh, and 'zpool status' returns: pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 ad5s3 ONLINE 0 0 0 And when I just tried 'zfs unmount tank/jwhendy' I get 'cannot unmount tank/jwhendy: not currently mounted'. Just wanted to add that... I thought tank/jwhendy hendy was mounted since it's mountpoint directory was not empty, but according to zfs it was not mounted. Thanks, John On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Boris Kotzev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I dual boot OS X and FreeBSD (currently 7.0-i386) and have wanted to > share a > > partition for storage between the two. I looked into getting HFS+ to work > on > > FreeBSD (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1198)< > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1198> > > but > > did not succeed. Then I ran across these two pages: > > > > - http://blog.igorminar.com/2009/01/using-zfs-with-mac-os-x-105.html > > - http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki > > > > I used them to successfully change my Users folder in OS X to a zfs > > filesystem on a partition separate from my main OS X system/boot files. > Now > > I just want to mount that partition from FreeBSD. Is this possible? I can > > see the slice in /dev as ad5s3, but there's no partitions on that slice > to > > mount (ad5s3a, for example), nor am I familiar enough with ZFS to know > what > > it should look like from FreeBSD. I have tried 'mount -t zfs /dev/ad5s3 > > /media/temp' without success. zfs.ko is loaded (seen in kldstat) and > gives > > the usual message of it being experimental and being version 6.0. In a > post > > on the forums (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1613) it was > > suggested that I try 'zpool list' but that returned 'no pools available'. > I > > tried 'zfs list' as well and got 'no datasets available'. > > > > My GUID partition table (OS X) and MBR (FreeBSD) are synced, so they both > > show disk0s3 (OS X)/partition 3 as type Solaris (It's 'Solaris Usr' on > the > > GPT and type B4 iirc on the MBR). I used an EFI booting program called > rEFIt > > to sync the tables - could the MBR type of the slice be the reason I > can't > > mount it from FreeBSD? > > > > I've searched long and hard for any posts about using zfs as a way to > share > > a partition between any two OSs, but have not found any references on how > to > > use a zfs slice as a shared data partition. Can it only be mounted from > the > > OS in which it was created? Any thoughts on what I might do here? > > > > > > Thanks much, > > John > > I am sorry, I wanted to ask what > > zpool import > > returns. > > Regards, > > Boris Kotzev > > > > > > >