Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0
Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:13:36 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus $ zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli failed with the message Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation. I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli part, so I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted partition instead to have a working machine for the week. I would, however, like to have my data on an encrypted partition though. Has anyone witnessed and resolved this issue or does anyone have other ideas? I have never seen this error message and its meaning isn't obvious to me either (which is why I didn't comment earlier, before Da Rock provoked me). You could try truss'ing the operating to see what is actually going on. You could also try to see if it makes a difference if you put a label on top of the eli geom and try to create the pool on that. Someone using ZFS will be able to verify this, but from my understanding ZFS runs on the hardware and you can *possibly* put geli on top of ZFS. While you can indeed put geli on a ZFS volume, putting the ZFS pool on geli is supposed to work as well and does work for me: fk@r500 ~ $zpool status tank pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 3h1m with 0 errors on Sun Mar 25 20:47:28 2012 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 ada0s1d.eli ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors The pool was created with a command rather similar to the one used by Christopher: fk@r500 ~ $sudo zpool history | head -n 2 History for 'tank': 2009-08-09.02:53:52 zpool create tank ad4s1d.eli While I'm using this pool on a 10.0-CURRENT system, the pool worked with previous FreeBSD versions in the past. I currently have no 9.0 system to test with. Here's a more recently created pool where the eli is on a label: fk@r500 ~ $zpool status lexmark pool: lexmark state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h2m with 0 errors on Sun Mar 11 22:10:49 2012 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM lexmark ONLINE 0 0 0 label/lexmark.eli ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors fk@r500 ~ $sudo zpool history lexmark | head -n 2 History for 'lexmark': 2012-02-04.13:41:05 zpool create lexmark /dev/label/lexmark.eli This is the configuration I usually use for external devices, as it makes automatically importing the pool easier. While this configuration is known to trigger bugs under certain conditions, I don't know for sure that using less geoms would actually help: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/162010 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/162036 You can put geom on ZFS but not the other way around. Except for test pools, I always use geoms as vdevs. This has been working (for me) since I started using ZFS shortly after Pawel imported it. I had a zpool on a geli on FreeBSD-8.0 to 8.2 and 8-stable. I opted for a complete reinstall of 9.0 instead of upgrading due to issues with xmonad, which I did not understand then. I am furious at my decision now that I have seen that a update would possibly have been much easier than to reinstall, had I at that time understood what was causing problems with xmonad. Do you know if you used the same zpool command and the same vdev in the past? Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:13:36 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus $ zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli failed with the message Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation. I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli part, so I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted partition instead to have a working machine for the week. I would, however, like to have my data on an encrypted partition though. Has anyone witnessed and resolved this issue or does anyone have other ideas? Someone using ZFS will be able to verify this, but from my understanding ZFS runs on the hardware and you can *possibly* put geli on top of ZFS. You can put geom on ZFS but not the other way around. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I had a zpool on a geli on FreeBSD-8.0 to 8.2 and 8-stable. I opted for a complete reinstall of 9.0 instead of upgrading due to issues with xmonad, which I did not understand then. I am furious at my decision now that I have seen that a update would possibly have been much easier than to reinstall, had I at that time understood what was causing problems with xmonad. Cheers, Christopher ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0
I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus $ zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli failed with the message Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation. I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli part, so I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted partition instead to have a working machine for the week. I would, however, like to have my data on an encrypted partition though. Has anyone witnessed and resolved this issue or does anyone have other ideas? Thanks for your help, cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2h ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0
On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus $ zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli failed with the message Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation. I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli part, so I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted partition instead to have a working machine for the week. I would, however, like to have my data on an encrypted partition though. Has anyone witnessed and resolved this issue or does anyone have other ideas? Someone using ZFS will be able to verify this, but from my understanding ZFS runs on the hardware and you can *possibly* put geli on top of ZFS. You can put geom on ZFS but not the other way around. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
