Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:04 -0800 From: Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> To: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> Cc: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com>, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Subject: Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem Message-ID: <f80199c41001271432n19bd856l951c1e60e53dc32f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d36406631001271359m36e32fb4id95239dfb0542d6d@mail.gmail.com> References: <f80199c41001251331q1552da27v7c3c87096118311c@mail.gmail.com> <a57b43541001251729t7476aaftcf4a8c91364b2a6e@mail.gmail.com> <f80199c41001260051w7a7b4854t4ef31d53c6b0a79f@mail.gmail.com> <867hr46fl0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <f80199c41001271129v328f7b82v1f879eba8117fb3e@mail.gmail.com> <d36406631001271359m36e32fb4id95239dfb0542d6d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > 2010/1/27 Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz >> <merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> writes: >> > >> > Ross> That seems to have been the problem. >> > >> > Yes, what I learned the hard way is that every single step there needs >> > to be >> > precisely followed, without deviation, even if you don't understand it >> > or >> > think it's important. :) >> >> Yes! But because I was extra anal retentive this time around, I've run >> into some more trouble. I have 2 disks and I only added one when I >> created the zroot pool. Now that my system is booted I figured I could >> just go 'zpool add -f zroot /dev/gpt/disk1' but I get the error >> message: "cannot add to 'zroot': root pool cannot have multiple vdevs >> or seperate logs". >> >> I prepared the second disk in a similar manner to the first: "gpart -t >> freebsd-zfs -l disk1 ad6". >> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated! > > > u need to attach the drive create a mirror, adding creates a new vdev ie > creates a stripe aka raid0 > I didn't want a mirror though, I wanted a stripe. I still don't understand why what I'm doing isn't working.
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