Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 20/12/2012 00:34 Kimmo Paasiala said the following: > What is the status of the MFC process to 9-STABLE? I'm on 9-STABLE > r244407, should I be able to boot from this ZFS pool without > zpool.cache? I haven't MFC-ed the change as of now. After I eventually MFC it you should be able to boot fro

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 20/12/2012 00:14 Garrett Cooper said the following: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > ... > >> You could at least point to the FreeBSD Forums version of that post. :) >> >> https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662 > > Andriy, > > I figured out my problem.

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-19 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Recently some changes were made to how a root pool is opened for root > filesystem > mounting. Previously the root pool had to be present in zpool.cache. Now it > is > automatically discovered by probing available GEOM providers. > The n

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: ... > You could at least point to the FreeBSD Forums version of that post. :) > > https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662 Andriy, I figured out my problem. It was really, really stupid PEBKAC (copied a KERNCONF from one system tha

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > ... > > > One thing that I recommend to all ZFS users is to make use of boot > environments. > > They are very easy, very convenient and may save a lot of trouble. > > Use either any

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: ... > This sounds messy, not sure if it has any informative value. > I think I've seen something like this after some reason ZFS import from > upsteam > when my kernel and userland were out of sync. > Do you do a full boot from the livecd? O

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: ... > One thing that I recommend to all ZFS users is to make use of boot > environments. > They are very easy, very convenient and may save a lot of trouble. > Use either any of the tool available in ports (e.g. sysutils/beadm) or just > "do

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2012 02:55 Garrett Cooper said the following: > If I try and let it import the pool at boot it claims the pool is in a > FAULTED state when I point mountroot to /dev/cd0 (one of gjb's > snapshot CDs -- thanks!), run service hostid onestart, etc. If I > export and try to reimport the pool i

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 07/12/2012 02:33 Garrett Cooper said the following: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > ... > >> Please document the process to make this work in UPDATING (or at least >> the fact that this behavior was changed). >> >> I'm debugging moving from 9.1-RC2 to CURRENT [as o

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: ... Going back in time a until the start of November didn't help. This zpool get version for both of the pools is quite interesting -- in particular, why is the value unset ("-")? I've provided the zdb -C info as well (just in case) (int

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: ... > (Removing bogus list) > > If I try and let it import the pool at boot it claims the pool is in a > FAULTED state when I point mountroot to /dev/cd0 (one of gjb's > snapshot CDs -- thanks!), run service hostid onestart, etc. If I > expor

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > ... > >> Please document the process to make this work in UPDATING (or at least >> the fact that this behavior was changed). >> >> I'm debugging moving from 9.1-RC2 to CURRENT [as of

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: ... > Please document the process to make this work in UPDATING (or at least > the fact that this behavior was changed). > > I'm debugging moving from 9.1-RC2 to CURRENT [as of Tuesday] as it > hasn't been as smooth as some of the other upgra

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-01 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 01/12/2012 15:36 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:51:48AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> GREATE in a diskless environment, /boot is read only, and the >> zpool.cache issue has been bothering me ever since, there was no way (and >> I tried) to re route it.

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-12-01 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:51:48AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > > > Recently some changes were made to how a root pool is opened for root > > filesystem > > mounting. Previously the root pool had to be present in zpool.cache. Now > > it is > > automatically discovered by probing available

Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Braniss
> > Recently some changes were made to how a root pool is opened for root > filesystem > mounting. Previously the root pool had to be present in zpool.cache. Now it > is > automatically discovered by probing available GEOM providers. > The new scheme is believed to be more flexible. For examp

[HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting

2012-11-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
Recently some changes were made to how a root pool is opened for root filesystem mounting. Previously the root pool had to be present in zpool.cache. Now it is automatically discovered by probing available GEOM providers. The new scheme is believed to be more flexible. For example, it allows to