Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 09:13:59 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: levitch@iglou.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failure to create zfs storage pool Message-ID: <BANLkTinBLHgLLbC1v8RFJUcbsb8x=CpL1A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.1106031635480.9153@shell1> References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.1106031635480.9153@shell1>
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On 3 June 2011 21:41, <levitch@iglou.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > are you trying to do zfs root or just have a freebsd system with a zpool? You could take the real easy way of getting zfsroot, and install freebsd via pc-bsd install cd and that would do all the hard work
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