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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:04:26 +0000
From:      "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>
Cc:        Johan Broman <johan@bridgenet.se>, Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, "<freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Current" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI
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On Oct 21, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Allan Jude wrote:

> On 2013-10-21 11:45, Johan Broman wrote:
>> Hi!
>>=20
>> Sorry for the delayed answer. I've patched zfsboot and rebuilt the
>> release. I now get an error message that ada2 can't be used, which is
>> correct. Good stuff! :)
>>=20
>> ( I've recreated the test environment using a KVM guest with four SATA
>> drives instead of the server I was using. I makes it easier to test
>> stuff. )
>>=20
>> Here's the screenshot:
>>=20
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=3Dhttp://212.181.212.146/bsdi=
nstall/Screenshot_2013-10-21.png&k=3D%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=
=3DMrjs6vR4%2Faj2Ns9%2FssHJjg%3D%3D%0A&m=3DB6jLX5vSxIfvyks3HH55lYWtfhRBpGZ3=
nVA65M%2FgmXM%3D%0A&s=3Df6fc4ec7c9d8b9486e897156dac5af7c3f64e3fae746dcf6c66=
ad91564a8ce99
>>=20
>>=20
>> Maybe one should be unable to select drives that are part of a graid
>> in the first place? Or is that out-of-scope for bsdinstall at this
>> point? (As I guess that requires too many changes/new lines)
>>=20
>>=20
>> Cheers
>> Johan
>>=20
>>=20
>> On 19/10/13 22:20, Teske, Devin wrote:
>>>=20
>>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Johan Broman wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> I recreated the graid mirror on ada2 and ada3 and reran the
>>>> installation. I'm unable to scroll the msgbox using PgDn or arrow
>>>> keys. There is no indication that the action failed and I'm returned
>>>> to the ZFS setup screen if I hit OK.
>>>>=20
>>>> I have screen shots (taken with my phone) of the msgbox and "ps
>>>> auxwww" output. Let me know what kind of debug info you would like.
>>>> I've put the screen shots here:
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>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=3Dhttp://212.181.212.146/bs=
dinstall&k=3D%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=3DMrjs6vR4%2Faj2Ns9%2Fss=
HJjg%3D%3D%0A&m=3DB6jLX5vSxIfvyks3HH55lYWtfhRBpGZ3nVA65M%2FgmXM%3D%0A&s=3D6=
322000e13ed155bda748698c4a0d54c9de7c29f5566affe202d7c5a29917cd1
>>>=20
>>> I've added a patch to fix debugging in the zfsboot script...
>>>=20
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=3Dhttp://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net=
/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_zfs/&k=3D%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=
=3DMrjs6vR4%2Faj2Ns9%2FssHJjg%3D%3D%0A&m=3DB6jLX5vSxIfvyks3HH55lYWtfhRBpGZ3=
nVA65M%2FgmXM%3D%0A&s=3D1dc96a8b5450d27fe8210b361c9ed736ccd448f78df6aabe170=
bb80e31bca6d9
>>>=20
>>> Feedback welcome.
>>>=20
>>> Johan,...
>>>=20
>>> Can you see if the patch sheds some better light as to what's failing?
>>>=20
>>> The patch won't fix the problem, but it should give us an accurate error
>>> message so that we can learn what precisely is returning an error
>>> status.
>>>=20
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>=20
> I do notice that Devin's manually prefixing the error message with the
> tool name, is partially redundancy when the tool does it it self, but we
> can't always be sure it will do that.
>=20

The next patchset will fix that.

I'm dropping the tool name from the msgbox contents and putting it in
the title (e.g., '"Error: gpart") that way... even if the tool spits out it=
s own
name (or not), we'll know what exactly what was going on by looking
at the title.


> the graid thing is rather hard to detect, especially when it is a
> faulted array that doesn't even appear in graid status etc.
>=20

I believe the idea behind the script is that whatever you tell it to use wi=
ll
be destroyed.

Allan, maybe perhaps we could add some code that attempts to dis-
assemble a graid to make the disk usable?

Johan, what would you be more apt to expect? That it killed your graid
or that it gave an error? (/me thinks what the recourse to the error might
entail -- going to partedit?)
--=20
Devin

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