Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:34:34 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: Peter Toth <freebsd@snap.net.nz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on Root Message-ID: <BANLkTinBk%2BCyKJXCnU=DY65%2Bmw8PayvSyA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=uy7Hoxo6yJPESAiR4eZmBHxO-2A@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110621201553.GA29153@gmail.com> <4E01344B.4020902@snap.net.nz> <20110622004535.GA29715@gmail.com> <BANLkTi=uy7Hoxo6yJPESAiR4eZmBHxO-2A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 22 June 2011 21:31, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 22 June 2011 01:47, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> wrote: > >> * Peter Toth <freebsd@snap.net.nz> [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: >> >> > Did you set the "bootfs" property on your root pool? Example: "zpool set >> > bootfs=tank/root tank" >> >> OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank) and >> zpool promptly tells me the following >> >> Fixit# zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank >> cannot set property for 'tank': no such pool or dataset. >> Fixit >> >> But ... there is! It was a great tip and a worthy try. But it didn't >> work, got any more idea's? >> >> -- >> > Chris Brennan >> > -- >> > A: Yes. >> > >Q: Are you sure? >> > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >> > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? >> > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ >> > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > I never have the os installed in the rootfs of the pool > > > sorry finger fart, ill continue I have a separate tree for the os, as per below (modelled on opensolaris). Make sure the fs you boot off is also set to legacy mountpoint. Also make sure your bootloader is a zfs aware one [root@carrera /home/krad]# df / Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on system-4k/be/root20110604 597G 5.5G 591G 1% / [root@carrera /home/krad]# zfs list | grep be system-4k/be 55.0G 592G 180K /system-4k/be system-4k/be/current 1.51G 592G 1017M legacy system-4k/be/root20110226 2.80G 592G 882M legacy system-4k/be/root20110302 3.24G 592G 882M legacy system-4k/be/root20110306 1.32G 592G 882M legacy system-4k/be/root20110312 1.36G 592G 923M legacy system-4k/be/root20110416 1.47G 592G 1.14G /system-4k/be/root20110416 system-4k/be/root20110430 1.47G 592G 1.15G legacy system-4k/be/root20110505 2.11G 592G 1.78G legacy system-4k/be/root20110506 4.01G 592G 3.37G legacy system-4k/be/root20110604 6.23G 592G 5.50G /system-4k/be/root20110604 system-4k/be/tmp 900K 594G 384K /tmp system-4k/be/usr-local 4.00G 592G 1.78G /usr/local/ system-4k/be/usr-obj 4.45G 592G 1.45G /usr/obj system-4k/be/usr-ports 9.47G 592G 3.84G /usr/ports system-4k/be/usr-ports/distfiles 2.96G 592G 1.77G /usr/ports/distfiles system-4k/be/usr-src 1.56G 592G 1006M /usr/src system-4k/be/var 8.04G 592G 1.03G /var system-4k/be/var/log 6.68G 592G 4.76G /var/log system-4k/be/var/mysql 82.5M 592G 33.9M /var/db/mysql [root@carrera /home/krad]# zpool get bootfs system-4k NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE system-4k bootfs system-4k/be/root20110604 local
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