Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:02:16 -0800 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> Subject: Re: ZFS and disappearing glabels Message-ID: <19261.11640.915032.590295@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <20091231215739.GA49850@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <19261.3612.150477.365986@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20091231215739.GA49850@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:48:28PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > > > > I've set up a system as described here. > > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > > > > Using the 8.0 Release DVD and then csup'ing to RELENG_8 and > > rebuilding. > > > > I set it up with a single drive, the only change that I made was that > > after creating ad10s1a I glabeled it as disk0, then added > > /dev/label/disk0 to the pool. > > > > That worked great. > > > > Then I added a second larger drive, giving it an MBR, a bsd label, and > > an s1a partition that I glabeled as disk1. I attached that to the > > pool and it resilvered happily. > > > > However, when I rebooted I found that the pool now consists of > > label/disk0 and ad12s1a. I detached ad12s1a, relabeled it as disk1, > > and attached disk1 to the pool again. It resilvered fine. Running > > strings on /boot/zfs/zpool.cache shows /dev/label/disk0 and > > /dev/label/disk1. > > How did you create the labels? See glabel(8) about the difference between the > "manual" and "automatic" method. Maybe you accidentally used the manual method > on the second disk? > [...] +1 bonus point to Roland, just in time under the New Years wire. I created the first label with 'glabel label', which creates an automatic label, but created the second with 'glabel create' (assuming it was a synonym), which creates a manual label. I did a detach, relabeled, reattached, and away I go. Thanks,! g.
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