Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:45:44 -0400 From: "Chad J. Milios" <milios@ccsys.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation progress Message-ID: <AEBD9E3F-F148-428C-841C-1D2605BDEBD8@ccsys.com> In-Reply-To: <562553AE.6020601@hiwaay.net> References: <56254484.8060003@hiwaay.net> <20151019204335.89b83ff2eff7213ca5c36556@sohara.org> <562553AE.6020601@hiwaay.net>
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> On Oct 19, 2015, at 4:32 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrot=
e:
>=20
>> On 10/19/15 14:49, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:34:38 -0453.75
>> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Well, I finally pulled the trigger on a ZFS install on my myth-TV
>>> box-to-be and .... Everything basically worked, 2 glitches, but I got
>>> worked around them & it is up & running, w/ 2X 1 TB 7200 RPM 2.5" HDD's
>>> in an unmirrored pool, about 1.8 TiB total pool size. I am configuring
>>> it now, & have a couple of questions. If I want it to be a NFS server &
>>> export /home, do I just use that reference verbatim in my /etc/exports
>>> file & crank the server or is there more to it ?
>> You can do that, but just as ZFS has inbuilt support for managing
>> mounting of filesystems by setting the mountpoint property it also has
>> inbuilt support for managing NFS exports via the sharenfs property. Do on=
e
>> or the other - not both. I started out using /etc/exports and switched to=
>> ZFS properties for reasons I have now forgotten.
>=20
> I just set sharenfs:
>=20
>=20
> [root@mythbox, /etc, 3:25:23pm] 295 % df -h ; hddtemp /dev/ada[0-3] ; w ; p=
stat -hms ; uname -a ; hwclock -r ; date
> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> zroot/ROOT/default zfs 1.8T 450M 1.8T 0% /
> devfs devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
> zroot/home zfs 1.8T 208k 1.8T 0% /home
> zroot/tmp zfs 1.8T 184k 1.8T 0% /tmp
> zroot/usr zfs 1.8T 1.3G 1.8T 0% /usr
> zroot/usr/local zfs 1.8T 9.3M 1.8T 0% /usr/local
> zroot/var zfs 1.8T 624k 1.8T 0% /var
> zroot/var/crash zfs 1.8T 148k 1.8T 0% /var/crash
> zroot/var/db zfs 1.8T 3.1M 1.8T 0% /var/db
> zroot/var/db/pkg zfs 1.8T 25M 1.8T 0% /var/db/pkg
> zroot/var/empty zfs 1.8T 144k 1.8T 0% /var/empty
> zroot/var/log zfs 1.8T 208k 1.8T 0% /var/log
> zroot/var/mail zfs 1.8T 144k 1.8T 0% /var/mail
> zroot/var/run zfs 1.8T 216k 1.8T 0% /var/run
> zroot/var/tmp zfs 1.8T 152k 1.8T 0% /var/tmp
> hddtemp: Command not found.
> 3:25PM up 5:29, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> root v0 - 11:09PM - -csh (csh)
> wam pts/0 kabini1.local 2:45PM 26 -tcsh (tcsh)
> wam pts/1 kabini1.local 2:37PM - w
> Device 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity
> /dev/gpt/swap0 16384 0B 16G 0%
> /dev/gpt/swap1 16384 0B 16G 0%
> Total 32768 0B 32G 0%
> FreeBSD mythbox 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu Jul 10 23:=
44:39 UTC 2014 root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> hwclock: Command not found.
> Mon Oct 19 15:25:30 MCDT 2015
> [root@mythbox, /etc, 3:25:30pm] 296 % zfs set sharenfs=3Don zroot/home
> [root@mythbox, /etc, 3:25:45pm] 297 % zfs share -a
>=20
> However, when I try to mount the shared 'directory', I get the following o=
n the other box (also FreeBSD 9.3R, as it happens):
>=20
> [wam@kabini1, ~, 3:33:43pm] 372 % lf /net/4256ee1/home/ /net/mythbox/home/=
/net/q6600/home/; date
> ls: /net/mythbox/home/: Operation timed out
> /net/4256ee1/home/:
> FTP/ ISOs/ archive/ pub/ rsync/ wam/ work/
>=20
> /net/q6600/home/:
> FTP/ ISOs/ VMs/ archive/ lost+found/ mnt/ =
rsync/ wam/ work/ zaliases.csh zaliases.sh
> Mon Oct 19 15:34:02 MCDT 2015
> [wam@kabini1, ~, 3:34:02pm] 373 %
>=20
> & in my messages file:
>=20
>=20
> Oct 19 15:19:40 kabini1 amd[31334]: get_mount_client failed for mythbox: :=
RPC: Program not registered
> Oct 19 15:19:40 kabini1 amd[782]: /net/mythbox: mount (amfs_cont): Input/o=
utput error
> Oct 19 15:20:33 kabini1 amd[31392]: get_mount_client failed for mythbox: :=
RPC: Program not registered
> Oct 19 15:20:33 kabini1 amd[782]: /net/mythbox: mount (amfs_cont): Input/o=
utput error
> Oct 19 15:27:47 kabini1 amd[31851]: get_mount_client failed for mythbox: :=
RPC: Program not registered
> Oct 19 15:27:47 kabini1 amd[782]: /net/mythbox: mount (amfs_cont): Input/o=
utput error
>=20
>=20
> Nothing in any of the log files on the myth-box. Pilot error, I'm sure, bu=
t any clues appreciated. Thanks & TIA & have a good one.
>=20
>=20
>>=20
>>> Also, is use of tmpfs
>>> compatible/OK w/ ZFS 'filesystem' ?
>> Sure no reason why you shouldn't use both, except perhaps for
>> memory pressure.
>=20
> Fair amount of RAM here (16 GB), so I think I'll activate tmpfs, thanks.
>=20
> --=20
>=20
> William A. Mahaffey III
>=20
I believe the problem is that u still need to start the nfsd and rpcbind ser=
vices, u just don't have to manually manage /etc/exports anymore when using t=
he ZFS properties.
I think u will be pleased with tmpfs.
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