Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-18 Thread Roland Smith
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Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
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Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-17 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote: It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table. Can you post the output of 'gpart showdevice' and 'bsdlabeldevices1'? westmark# gpart show ad8 = 63 976773105 ad8 MBR (466G) 63 9767731051 freebsd [active] (466G)

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-17 Thread Dr. A. Haakh
Dick Hoogendijk schrieb: On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote: It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table. Can you post the output of 'gpart showdevice' and 'bsdlabeldevices1'? westmark# gpart show ad8 = 63 976773105 ad8 MBR (466G) 63 9767731051

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:06:12AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote: It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table. Can you post the output of 'gpart showdevice' and 'bsdlabeldevices1'? westmark# gpart show ad8 = 63 976773105 ad8

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number. Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number.

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote: My 500Gb drives won't however. they

RE: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-16 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Dick Hoogendijk [mailto:d...@nagual.nl] Sent: 16 August 2010 21:49 To: Roland Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 16-8-2010 23:13, Graeme Dargie wrote: Bit of a long shot, but have you tried enabling AHCI mode for the sata drives in the bios and setting ahci_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf assuming your the board supports it. I will certainly check this one out. Wouldn't know if my MB supports it. Hope

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 15-8-2010 3:10, George Hartzell wrote: Dick Hoogendijk writes: And how do I make the partition precisely one block smaller than the slic it lives in? How do I know what the blocksize is? Are you using explicit device names to add the disks to your pool? If so

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: I learned a lot from the scripts. ;-) The drives work wonderful as a gmirror now. My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number. Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created

ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I run FreeBSD-8.1/amd64. I have used ZFS for four years on (Open)Solaris, so I have some experience with it. It always served me very very well. However, I cannot get it to work on my SATA2 drives. At first I thought they'de suffer from something from there OpenSolaris ZFS mirroring. So, I

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-14 Thread George Hartzell
Dick Hoogendijk writes: I run FreeBSD-8.1/amd64. I have used ZFS for four years on (Open)Solaris, so I have some experience with it. It always served me very very well. However, I cannot get it to work on my SATA2 drives. At first I thought they'de suffer from something from there

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 14-8-2010 21:24, George Hartzell wrote: You haven't provided enough information for me to make a concrete suggestion, but this kind of thing often seems to boil down to something getting confused over slices and partitions when they both have the same extent (start-end) on disk. This used