[zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-14 Thread Douglas Atique
Now that I know *what*, could you perhaps explain to my *why*? I understood zpool import and export operations much as mount and unmount, like maybe some checks on the integrity of the pool and updates to some structure on the OS to maintain the imported/exported state of that pool. But now

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-14 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:17:36AM -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: Do you think this panic when the root pool is not visible is a bug? Should I file one? No. There is nothing else the OS can do when it cannot mount the root filesystem. That being said, it should have a nicer message (using

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Foster
hi Doug, On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:25 -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: I have been trying to setup a boot ZFS filesystem since b63 and found out about bug 6553537 that was preventing boot from ZFS filesystems starting from b63. First question is whether b65 has solved the problem as was planned on

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-05 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Doug, On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 06:45 -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: Hi, Tim. Thanks for your hints. No problem Comments on each one follow (marked with Doug: and in blue). html mail :-/ Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a number of things you could check:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-05 Thread Marko Milisavljevic
I have also been trying to figure out the best strategy regarding ZFS boot... I currently have a single disk UFS boot and RAID-Z for data. I plan on getting a mirror for boot, but I still don't understand what my options are regarding: - Should I set up one zfs slice for the entire drive and

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Atique
Hi, I have been trying to setup a boot ZFS filesystem since b63 and found out about bug 6553537 that was preventing boot from ZFS filesystems starting from b63. First question is whether b65 has solved the problem as was planned on the bug page. Second question is: as I cannot boot successfully