Re: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition?

2010-09-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Gil Vidals wrote: > The exact error message I get is: > > linker_load_file: Unsupported file type > kldload: can't load zfs.ko: Exec format error. > > I would appreciate any additional guidance. In the meantime, Randal > Schwartz was kind of enough to suggest PC-B

Re: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition?

2010-09-07 Thread Gil Vidals
The exact error message I get is: linker_load_file: Unsupported file type kldload: can't load zfs.ko: Exec format error. I would appreciate any additional guidance. In the meantime, Randal Schwartz was kind of enough to suggest PC-BSD, which includes an installer that supports ZFS, so I will che

RE: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition?

2010-09-07 Thread Graeme Dargie
From: Gil Vidals [mailto:gvid...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 07/09/2010 03:55 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition? I'm new to both FreeBSD and ZFS and need some guidance. The only way I could get zfs to work was

Re: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition?

2010-09-07 Thread perryh
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > ... PCBSD can install a typical FreeBSD install without all of > the PCBSD extra packages. Is there a writeup somewhere on how to do this, much preferably involving something like memstick rather than having to burn a CD or DVD?

Re: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition?

2010-09-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Gil" == Gil Vidals writes: Gil> The only way I could Gil> get zfs to work was by installing FreeBSD directly on a freebsd-ZFS file Gil> system, which isn't supported by default by sysinstall. It *is* supported by PCBSD-8.1 installer though, and PCBSD can install a typical FreeBSD install

Re: zfs enabled freebsd requires root zfs partition?

2010-09-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Gil Vidals wrote: > Whenever If I used the standard install (UFS file system), I would always > get an "unsupported file system" error whenever I tried to kldload zfs.ko. > That doesn't seem like a logical error, the only occurrence of the "unsupported file system