From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 16:45:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABDE1065673; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D7C8FC1E; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from [192.168.1.95] (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KAJ00EGAFW19P20@asmtp020.mac.com>; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:45:38 -0800 (PST) Message-id: <93FC5F5D-91CD-450B-B08D-5C5EC5A1C880@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Andriy Gapon In-reply-to: <49227875.6090902@icyb.net.ua> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:45:36 -0800 References: <4911C3E9.405@icyb.net.ua> <49198A1A.3080600@icyb.net.ua> <49227875.6090902@icyb.net.ua> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs: affected by geom_(mbr|bsd) => geom_part_(mbr|bsd) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:45:39 -0000 On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 18/11/2008 07:27 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: >> [sorry for the delay] >> On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> on 05/11/2008 18:03 Andriy Gapon said the following: >>>> Using GENERIC amd64 7-BETA2 system (installed from "official" >>>> ISO) I >> *snip* >>>> Then I built a custom kernel with nooptions for GEOM_(BSD|MBR) and >>>> options for GEOM_PART_(BSD|MBR). When I tried to boot this kernel >>>> it >>>> couldn't mount ZFS root and I simply rebooted my machine when I >>>> stuck at >>>> mountroot prompt (I couldn't enter UFS2 root because of unrelated >>>> keyboard problem). >>>> The boot was verbose and I didn't see any peculiar GEOM or >>>> GEOM_PART >>>> messages (errors, warnings). >> The problem is very likely related to change 184204. This >> change fixes a conflict between MBR and BSD. Unfortunately >> this fix wasn't in 7.1-BETA2. You should not have a problem >> with 7.1-RELEASE (nor 7-STABLE). > > Marcel, > > this particular change was definitely in kernel. > As I reported in subsequent posts gpart show reported everything > correctly and device node existed in dev, etc. UFS was happy about > all its partitions, only ZFS had trouble. I think that this was > something different, more subtle. Hmmm... this goes over my head. Some ZFS guru needs to tell us what criteria are being checked exactly before a disk/provider is considered the one recorded in the meta-data. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com