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Date:      Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:11:37 +0100
From:      krad <kraduk@googlemail.com>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Subject:   Re: ZFS on entire disks setup
Message-ID:  <d36406630909261111t75c3aa99y4606cb2c7758406b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6A973ECE-83E7-4653-BBE7-CC3093361D19@lassitu.de>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909261534060.62389@woozle.rinet.ru> <6A973ECE-83E7-4653-BBE7-CC3093361D19@lassitu.de>

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2009/9/26 Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>

> Am 26.09.2009 um 13:39 schrieb Dmitry Morozovsky:
>
>  Dear colleagues,
>>
>> is there a way to configure ZFS-only setup without partitions?
>>
>> I tried to reproduce the trick with `skip=1 seek=1024', and have
>> loot/loader
>> running, but it does not see the pool.
>>
>
> This sequence is working for me:
> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0 count=1
> dd if=/boot/zfsboot of=/dev/da0 skip=1 seek=1024
> zpool create zroot /dev/da0
> zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot
> cd /usr/src && make installworld installkernel distribution DESTDIR=/zroot
> cp /boot/loader.conf /zroot/boot/loader.conf
> cp /etc/rc.conf /zroot/etc/
> touch /zroot/etc/fstab
> echo 'zfs_load="YES"' >>/zroot/boot/loader.conf
> echo 'vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot"' >>/zroot/boot/loader.conf
> zpool export zroot
> zpool import zroot
> cp /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /zroot/boot/zfs/
> zfs set mountpoint=legacy zroot
>
> ... except that it doesn't anymore.  I saw this working about two months
> ago, but now it fails to mount root.  Verbose boot doesn't give any
> indication why ZFS can't find the pool.
>
>
> Stefan
>
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have the performance issues with zvols been fixed. I remember a while ago it
wasn't a good idea to run swap on a zvol. This is why i left a partition
free for swap



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