Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:41:05 -0400 (EDT) From: levitch@iglou.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: failure to create zfs storage pool Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.1106031635480.9153@shell1>
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Hello, After getting a couple of Hitachi 1T 7200 rpm drives, it seemed like time for ZFS on FreeBSD82, having not had Z file system subsequent to retiring whatever OpenSolaris was around. Basically, I followed this article: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/installation.html Previous to this, I had been using sysinstall. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 count=2 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6 count=2 fdisk -BI ad4 fdisk -BI ad6 bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad4s1 bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad6s1 ------------------------------------------------- bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1 a: 1G 16 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 b: 5G * swap c: blah,blah d: 20G * 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 e: 20G * 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 f: * * unused 0 0 ------------------------------------------------- bsdlabel /dev/ad4s1 > /tmp/bsdlabel.txt && bsdlabel -R \ /dev/ad6s1 /tmp/bsdlabel.txt Now it was way past midnight, I cannot recall but might have run this: gmirror label -nb round-robin gm0 ad4s1 ad6s1 I ran these: gmirror label root ad4s1a ad6s1a gmirror label var ad4s1d ad6s1d gmirror label usr ad4s1e ad6s1e gmirror label -F swap ad4s1b ad6s1b gmirror load newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/mirror/root newfs /dev/mirror/var newfs /dev/mirror/usr mount /dev/mirror/root /mnt mkdir /mnt/var /mnt/usr mount /dev/mirror/var /mnt/var mount /dev/mirror/usr /mnt/usr So I got the files with 'ftp passive' and followed the article all to the 'reboot' command. Seemed okay. Now at the next page of the article: /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/zfs.html Having read several articles and the zpool manual page, I still have failed to create any kind of ZFS storage pool. Darrel
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