From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 08:10:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC03106564A; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:10:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from hosted.kievnet.com (hosted.kievnet.com [193.138.144.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892A48FC0A; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:10:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=edge.pp.kiev.ua) by hosted.kievnet.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1L2LfJ-0000lE-OP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:10:29 +0200 Message-ID: <49227875.6090902@icyb.net.ua> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:10:29 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081005) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar References: <4911C3E9.405@icyb.net.ua> <49198A1A.3080600@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs: affected by geom_(mbr|bsd) => geom_part_(mbr|bsd) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:10:30 -0000 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. -- Andriy Gapon