From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 16:39:59 2008 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 6ADC0106567A for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:39:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CD78FC1B for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:39:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from haran.polands.org ([75.87.219.217]) by hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080829162452.UQKM9451.hrndva-omta01.mail.rr.com@haran.polands.org> for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:24:52 +0000 Received: from email.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7TGOo3t054553 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:24:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 198.212.224.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:24:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <932083ec073ad86a324f24b8725a8477.squirrel@email.polands.org> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:24:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: ZFS newbie: pools/mounts not surviving reboots? 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: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:39:59 -0000 Hello, I'm a newbie when it comes to ZFS and am doing some experimentation to get up-to-speed. I've been using the man pages, wiki and freebsd-fs for reference. Right now I'm running in a VM on 7.x i386. I've created a pool with the intention of housing /var : # zpool create zfs01 da7 # zfs create zfs01/var # dump -0aLC8 -f- /var | ( cd /zfs01/var && restore -rf- ) # zfs set mountpoint=/var zfs01/var # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0s1a 989M 128M 782M 14% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/da3s1d 989M 468K 910M 0% /var /dev/da4s1d 989M 12K 910M 0% /tmp /dev/da5s1d 989M 390M 520M 43% /usr /dev/da6s1d 989M 180K 910M 0% /home zfs01 983M 128K 983M 0% /zfs01 zfs01/var 984M 640K 983M 0% /zfs01/var fbsd7xvm# zfs set mountpoint=/var zfs01/var fbsd7xvm# mount /dev/mirror/gm0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/da3s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da4s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da5s1d on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da6s1d on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) zfs01 on /zfs01 (zfs, local) zfs01/var on /var (zfs, local) Ok, so far so good. My ZFS pool is mounted under /var. However, after I reboot, the pool is no longer mounted # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0s1a 989M 129M 781M 14% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/da4s1d 989M 12K 910M 0% /tmp /dev/da5s1d 989M 390M 520M 43% /usr /dev/da6s1d 989M 184K 910M 0% /home # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zfs01 648K 983M 18K /zfs01 zfs01/var 528K 983M 528K /var So what am I doing wrong? -- Regards, Doug