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.are you trying to do zfs root or just have a freebsd system with a zpool? You could take the real easy way of getting zfsroot, and install freebsd via pc-bsd install cd and that would do all the hard work
Having mirrored SATA disks with a simple zpool on FreeBSD was the original goal. Thank you for the idea. I can not think of any reason not to have zfs root. What is a drag is that I have already built a new kernel and just this morning already ran portsnap fetch and extract. Perhaps this might also be an opportunity to learn gpart and geom as well, limiting usage of fdisk, bsdlabel, and sysinstall moving forward. Darrel _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
