Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:45:10 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Adam Jacob Muller <freebsd-current@adam.gs>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Axel <acd@bsd.homelinux.org> Subject: Re: ZFS pool not working on boot Message-ID: <20070921014243.C33213@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070920150840.GG7562@dan.emsphone.com> References: <E6CAB30C-E22C-4C46-8F43-B69A91E71FFF@adam.gs> <m3vea6gtr2.fsf@vecta0.vectavision.com> <EC63F389-A232-4D1C-8542-DE8F954E0D97@adam.gs> <m38x723vsg.fsf@vecta0.vectavision.com> <20070920150840.GG7562@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Dan Nelson wrote:
DN> > It's a good idea to keep the actual old UFS / directory around
DN> > although only /boot gets used in there if you mount / from zfs.
DN>
DN> What I do is populate my UFS /.boot filesystem with /etc, /lib, /libexec,
DN> /bin, and /sbin from my root filesystem, so if zfs fails to load it's
DN> easy to recover.
With small patch to rescue (including zpool and zfs together with libraries
involved) all that required is copying /rescue and symlinking /bin and /sbin to
it.
Well, you also have to mkdir dev and possibly have ./etc/{,s}pwd.db to make tar
happy...
Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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