Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:55:02 +0100 From: "Graeme Dargie" <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> To: "Dick Hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.nl>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ZFS woes Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F7BD@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> In-Reply-To: <4C61B215.9030603@nagual.nl> References: <4C61B215.9030603@nagual.nl>
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-----Original Message----- From: Dick Hoogendijk [mailto:dick@nagual.nl]=20 Sent: 10 August 2010 21:10 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: ZFS woes FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 -> I spend all evening trying to create a ZFS mirror on my two 1Tb sata2 drives formerly used under opensolaris (zfs22) I=20 wiped out the firt mb; i used sysinstall to create a fbsd slice; wiped=20 it out again; booted knoppix to create an EFI / GPT; booted into=20 opensolaris and created a zpool (v14), but nothing, nothing did the trick. sometimes the GEOM GPT table (first / second) was bad; sometimes I saw=20 other warnings; sometimes I *seemed* to be able to create a ZFS mirror=20 and it *seemed* healthy. I even could write to it, but the moment I=20 wanted to do a "zpool scrub tank" the system freezes or gave me warnings like ZFS: vdev failure, zpool=3Dtank type=3Dvdev.bad.label Whatever I did, I could not get rid of the errors and create a healthy=20 zpool. It really drives me crazy, so if anyone can tell me HOW I can=20 turn two drives into a state that I can use them for ZFS under FreeBSD,=20 please tell me *in detail*. I love to have ZFS back (I'm really used to it on opensolaris), but it=20 has to be safe. It cannot be that one zpool scrub halts my system. I=20 must have done something wrong then. But what? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I could be over simplifying what you are trying to do, but seen as you did not mention it what was wrong with Freebsd and zpool create tank mirror device1 device2=20 If you are getting warnings about the drives being part of a previous pool and you are not fussed about the data on the drives try using the manufactures diagnostics to do low level format then create your pool. Regards Graeme
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