Re: update from 8.2 ZFS on root to 9.0

2012-01-16 Thread Magnus Strahlert
On 15 January 2012 14:23, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: Does anybody already did a *binary* update (w/ freebsd-update) from a zfs on root freebsd-8.2-RELEASE to a new freebsd-9.0-RELEASE zfs on root system? Did all went well? I know the procedure (freebsd-update, recompile all ports

Re: update from 8.2 ZFS on root to 9.0

2012-01-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 16-1-2012 13:17, Magnus Strahlert schreef: On 15 January 2012 14:23, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote: Does anybody already did a *binary* update (w/ freebsd-update) from a zfs on root freebsd-8.2-RELEASE to a new freebsd-9.0-RELEASE zfs on root system? Did all went well? I know

update from 8.2 ZFS on root to 9.0

2012-01-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Does anybody already did a *binary* update (w/ freebsd-update) from a zfs on root freebsd-8.2-RELEASE to a new freebsd-9.0-RELEASE zfs on root system? Did all went well? I know the procedure (freebsd-update, recompile all ports, finish freebsd-update). Succes stories please

Best solution to install zfs on root for FBSD 9

2011-12-20 Thread bsd
Hi, I would like to know if there is an official howto that could help me in the process of installing zfs on root. I will need a raid 1 configuration and plan to use the whole disks to be part of the pool. How far can we go with the installer ? Do I have to use gpart ? What is best way

Re: Best solution to install zfs on root for FBSD 9

2011-12-20 Thread Ivan Klymenko
В Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:11:36 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz пишет: Hi, I would like to know if there is an official howto that could help me in the process of installing zfs on root. I will need a raid 1 configuration and plan to use the whole disks to be part of the pool. How far can we

Re: Best solution to install zfs on root for FBSD 9

2011-12-20 Thread Corey Smith
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:11 PM, bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: I would like to know if there is an official howto that could help me in the process of installing zfs on root. I have specifically used this documentation with great success: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror You can

Re: Best solution to install zfs on root for FBSD 9 [SOLVED]

2011-12-20 Thread bsd
Le 20 déc. 2011 à 18:42, Ivan Klymenko a écrit : В Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:11:36 +0100 bsd b...@todoo.biz пишет: Hi, I would like to know if there is an official howto that could help me in the process of installing zfs on root. I will need a raid 1 configuration and plan to use

ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various ZFS backup filesystem streams or can I easely backup the zroot pool as a whole

Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/07/2011 11:20, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various ZFS backup filesystem streams or can I

Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/11/2011 5:59 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 11/07/2011 11:20, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various

Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: Matthew1) Really easy and unlimited amounts of snap-shotting. As well as Matthew making it really simple to get a coherent point-in-time backup of Matthew an active filesystem, they also give you a really simple

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-07-06 Thread Todor Dragnev
On 23.06.2011, at 16:08, Chris Brennan wrote: * Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-23 22:54:59 +1200]: Did you set the mount point properly for your ZFS root? My previous post was intended as an example only, you need to tailor it to your setup. Also, you can use mfsbsd

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Brennan
* Todor Dragnev todor.drag...@gmail.com [2011-07-06 10:43:17 +0300]: Inline reply: Hi Chris I just installed ZFS on ROOT on two 1TB SATA disks: First you need to download freebsd 8.2 memstick release http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html I did this via VirtualBox first

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-23 Thread Joshua Isom
On 6/21/2011 7:47 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: * Peter Tothfree...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: Did you set the bootfs property on your root pool? Example: zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank) and zpool promptly tells me

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Toth
the following Fixit# zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank cannot set property for 'tank': no such pool or dataset. Fixit But ... there is! It was a great tip and a worthy try. But it didn't work, got any more idea's? Did you set the mount point properly for your ZFS root? My previous

ZFS on root and find performance

2011-06-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Is anyone else running zfs on root and running into very slow finds? The /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security can take over a noisy HD thrashing hour to finish, the culprit being the find that crawls the filesystem. I'm hoping there is some I'm not sure if there if some simple zfs tuning

Re: ZFS on root and find performance

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Vereshagin
I feel summer creepin' in and I'm tired of this town again, freebsd-questions! 2011/06/23 03:56:07 -0700 Andrew Moran amo...@forsythia.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : AM AM Is anyone else running zfs on root and running into very slow finds? The /etc/periodic/daily/450.status

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-23 Thread Chris Brennan
* Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-23 22:54:59 +1200]: Did you set the mount point properly for your ZFS root? My previous post was intended as an example only, you need to tailor it to your setup. Also, you can use mfsbsd for installation very easy and straightforward http

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-22 Thread krad
On 22 June 2011 01:47, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: * Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: Did you set the bootfs property on your root pool? Example: zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank)

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-22 Thread krad
...@freebsd.org I never have the os installed in the rootfs of the pool sorry finger fart, ill continue I have a separate tree for the os, as per below (modelled on opensolaris). Make sure the fs you boot off is also set to legacy mountpoint. Also make sure your bootloader is a zfs aware one [root

ZFS on Root

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Brennan
OK, So I got ZFS installed on this new box, I had to loose two disks due to them being faulty, so I removed the IDE expansion card and booted from an SD card, all went well (according to this guide - http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror). I adjusted the instructions there for

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Toth
On 06/22/11 08:15, Chris Brennan wrote: OK, So I got ZFS installed on this new box, I had to loose two disks due to them being faulty, so I removed the IDE expansion card and booted from an SD card, all went well (according to this guide -

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Brennan
* Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: Did you set the bootfs property on your root pool? Example: zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank Well, the wiki I linked has the following: Fixit# mkdir /boot/zfs Fixit# zpool create zroot mirror /dev/gpt/disk0 /dev/gpt/disk1

Re: ZFS on Root

2011-06-21 Thread Chris Brennan
* Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz [2011-06-22 12:16:11 +1200]: Did you set the bootfs property on your root pool? Example: zpool set bootfs=tank/root tank OK, I booted back to the livefs memostick, imported my zpool (tank) and zpool promptly tells me the following Fixit# zpool set

Re: Problem upgrading from 8.1-8.2, ZFS as root filesystem

2011-02-28 Thread krad
On 27 February 2011 21:29, Scott Ballantyne boyva...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Scott Ballantyne boyva...@gmail.comwrote: ===sys/boot/i386/zfsloader (install) cp zfsloader.sym zfsloader.bin

Problem upgrading from 8.1-8.2, ZFS as root filesystem

2011-02-27 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi, Doing a source upgrade from 8.1-8.2, all went well up to the installworld step: Reboot into single user mode: mount -u ./ zfs mount -a cd /usr/src make installworld It goes fine up to this point: (copying by hand) ===sys/boot/i386/zfsloader (install) cp zfsloader.sym zfsloader.bin

Re: Problem upgrading from 8.1-8.2, ZFS as root filesystem

2011-02-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Scott Ballantyne boyva...@gmail.comwrote: ===sys/boot/i386/zfsloader (install) cp zfsloader.sym zfsloader.bin cp:No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/zfsloader *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 Any

Re: Problem upgrading from 8.1-8.2, ZFS as root filesystem

2011-02-27 Thread Scott Ballantyne
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Scott Ballantyne boyva...@gmail.comwrote: ===sys/boot/i386/zfsloader (install) cp zfsloader.sym zfsloader.bin cp:No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in

a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello list. My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used to update from official binaries to other official binaries. I am also gathering

Re: a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread krad
2010/1/11 Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com Hello list. My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used to update from official binaries

zfs on root and zpool.cache importance

2009-10-06 Thread Michal
Hello I'm a bit confused about zpool.cache file. I've got a configuration with /boot sitting on a usb drive (UFS) and everything else on internal ZFS hard drive. I'm booting my system off the usb drive so zpool.cache file is there (usb drive). Basic zfs root + ufs boot setup. Everything works

ZFS on root with atime=off

2008-10-03 Thread Artis Caune
Hi everyone, I install ZFS on root just like in Andrew ZFSOnRoot wiki page. I don't use legacy mount points. I also set atime=off on tank and all partitions inherit it from tank. When I reboot after install, root file system is mounted with atime option: # zfs get atime tank NAME PROPERTY

Re: ZFS on root with atime=off

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:26:52AM +0300, Artis Caune wrote: Hi everyone, I install ZFS on root just like in Andrew ZFSOnRoot wiki page. I don't use legacy mount points. I also set atime=off on tank and all partitions inherit it from tank. When I reboot after install, root file system