Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:45:36 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs: affected by geom_(mbr|bsd) => geom_part_(mbr|bsd) ? Message-ID: <93FC5F5D-91CD-450B-B08D-5C5EC5A1C880@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <49227875.6090902@icyb.net.ua> References: <4911C3E9.405@icyb.net.ua> <49198A1A.3080600@icyb.net.ua> <B6997A5A-1B56-4325-A24A-EF90AF8C6A6A@mac.com> <49227875.6090902@icyb.net.ua>
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On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 18/11/2008 07:27 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: >> [sorry for the delay] >> On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> on 05/11/2008 18:03 Andriy Gapon said the following: >>>> Using GENERIC amd64 7-BETA2 system (installed from "official" >>>> ISO) I >> *snip* >>>> Then I built a custom kernel with nooptions for GEOM_(BSD|MBR) and >>>> options for GEOM_PART_(BSD|MBR). When I tried to boot this kernel >>>> it >>>> couldn't mount ZFS root and I simply rebooted my machine when I >>>> stuck at >>>> mountroot prompt (I couldn't enter UFS2 root because of unrelated >>>> keyboard problem). >>>> The boot was verbose and I didn't see any peculiar GEOM or >>>> GEOM_PART >>>> messages (errors, warnings). >> The problem is very likely related to change 184204. This >> change fixes a conflict between MBR and BSD. Unfortunately >> this fix wasn't in 7.1-BETA2. You should not have a problem >> with 7.1-RELEASE (nor 7-STABLE). > > Marcel, > > this particular change was definitely in kernel. > As I reported in subsequent posts gpart show reported everything > correctly and device node existed in dev, etc. UFS was happy about > all its partitions, only ZFS had trouble. I think that this was > something different, more subtle. Hmmm... this goes over my head. Some ZFS guru needs to tell us what criteria are being checked exactly before a disk/provider is considered the one recorded in the meta-data. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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