Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 11:11:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Darrel <levitch@iglou.com> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: failure to create zfs storage pool Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.1106041109020.29650@shell1> In-Reply-To: <1700D703-4C8A-4793-9FCB-F792CCE4C646@my.gd> References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.1106031635480.9153@shell1> <1700D703-4C8A-4793-9FCB-F792CCE4C646@my.gd>
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>> >> 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. >> > > > How about you scrape the gmirror altogether and use ZFS's mirror instead ? > > This way, you could also use the whole disks for ZFs instead of having to create labels and slices... Well, I might even do this today. I still intend to run FreeBSD on it. So, perhaps something like this?: http://www.b0rken.org/freebsd/zfs.html Darrel
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