Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 18:04:47 -0700 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Andrew Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart Message-ID: <m2zld8d1ow.wl%randy@psg.com> In-Reply-To: <20090519190648.GD1050@camelot.theinternet.com.au> References: <20090518162253.GA78829@citylink.fud.org.nz> <20090519100744.GB5943@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <m2iqjxfbsr.wl%randy@psg.com> <20090519162936.GB1457@carrot.geeknest.org> <m2r5yldnt7.wl%randy@psg.com> <20090519171030.GG78829@citylink.fud.org.nz> <m2pre5dmkz.wl%randy@psg.com> <BC7D30D0-00ED-4B07-977E-9A3D45383C9E@mac.com> <20090519190648.GD1050@camelot.theinternet.com.au>
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as punishment, here is yet another email
so i have it all partitioned using fixit/dist.
ad4p1 64k freebsd-boot
ad4p2 64g freebsd-zfs (to use as zfs mirror)
ad4p3 64g freebsd-swap
ad4p4 2tb freebsd-zfs (to use as raidz2)
same for ad5. ad6 and ad7 have only p1 to join the raidz2.
but i can not build the boot zfs mirror because i can not follow the
destructions at
http://lulf.geeknest.org/blog/freebsd/Setting_up_a_zfs-only_system/
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook
etc
because fixit/dist is a world where i can not mount the zfs pool because
/ is read-only md0. so i can not set up the bootable zfs mirror system.
and, to add to the fun. due to time pressure, i go to back off to my
old faithful hack of small gmirrored boot partitions with big zfs. i dd
whomp the base drives (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da4 count=1000000). but
it seems not to stomp them. the sysinstall fdisk partiton editor keeps
seeing ad4p[1-4]!
coffee or sleep, tough call.
randy
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