From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 16:43:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EBC106566C for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED1D8FC0C for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:43:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id 0Gjr1i003516WCc01GjsE0; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:43:52 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=c4YpsGBl c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=FzH6up1-wjFnidMVhXkA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RStRn-0000Yp-D1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:43:51 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:43:51 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201111221643.51220.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Installing ZFS on 9.0-RC2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:43:55 -0000 I'm planning to upgrade to 9.0 soon and thought this might be a good opportunity to switch over to ZFS so I'm currently experimenting on a spare drive with the 9.0-RC2 DVD. I started off following the procedure in http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot but hit a problem in that the the new installer doesn't appear to provide a Fixit option. I've tried the shell and live cd options in the installer and also tried booting single user from the DVD but these all use the DVD as a read only root file system instead of the memory based file system in Fixit mode. I was able to get as far as creating a zpool but the first zfs create comand produced an error saying that it was unable to mount zroot/tmp. What's the correct approach to go about this with the 9.0-RC2 installer? -- Mike Clarke