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Date:      Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:46:02 +0200
From:      Roman Zaynetdinov <a@zaynetro.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS problems on aarch64 (RockPro64)
Message-ID:  <4380B211-E15A-4AB9-BCC0-ABB1332CDBEA@zaynetro.com>
In-Reply-To: <YAI%2B9/YPXQLJ8gTN@server.rulingia.com>
References:  <9A222485-8B10-4824-819D-420BB458482D@zaynetro.com> <YAI%2B9/YPXQLJ8gTN@server.rulingia.com>

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Thanks for the suggestions! Sadly, I am seeing exact same error no =
matter how I write.

root@generic:~ # zpool create -f -m /mnt/nas nas ada0p1
cannot zero first 4096 bytes of '/dev/ada0p1': Invalid argument

root@generic:~ # gpart destroy -F ada0
ada0 destroyed
root@generic:~ # gpart show ada0
gpart: No such geom: ada0.

root@generic:~ # zpool create -f -m /mnt/nas nas ada0
cannot zero first 4096 bytes of '/dev/ada0': Invalid argument

A wicked thing is that if I follow a guide from the handbook on adding a =
new disk it will fail to do so also.

root@generic:~ # newfs -U /dev/ada0
/dev/ada0: 3815447.8MB (7814037168 sectors) block size 32768, fragment =
size 4096
  using 6103 cylinder groups of 625.22MB, 20007 blks, 80128 inodes.
newfs: sbwrite: failed to write superblock: Input/output error


- Roman

> On 16. Jan 2021, at 3.18, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 2021-Jan-15 21:29:42 +0200, Roman Zaynetdinov <a@zaynetro.com> =
wrote:
>> root@generic:~ # zpool create -f -m /mnt/nas nas ada0
>> cannot zero first 4096 bytes of '/dev/ada0': Invalid argument
>=20
> This shows you trying to create a pool on /dev/ada0 - since ada0
> is already partitioned, this is blocking writes to the raw disk
> that would overwrite the partitioning layout.
>=20
>> root@generic:~ # gpart show ada0
>> =3D>        34  7814037101  ada0  GPT  (3.6T)
>>         34           6        - free -  (3.0K)
>>         40  7814037088     1  freebsd-zfs  (3.6T)
>> 7814037128           7        - free -  (3.5K)
>=20
> This shows that you have prepared /dev/ada0p1 to contain a ZFS pool.
>=20
> Try changing your create command to:
> # zpool create -f -m /mnt/nas nas ada0p1
>=20
> --=20
> Peter Jeremy




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