I started all over again and it is all good. Many thanks for everything.



> On Nov 16, 2015, at 12:21 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The fact that zpool import doesn't show anything is
> concerning, it implies that even the zfs headers
> cannot be found. Did you explicitly do sync and eject
> after you wrote the image to the card?
> 
> Something like:
> 
> # pv kirkwood.img.xz | xz -cd > /path/to/card/device
> # sync
> # eject /path/to/card/device
> 
> 
> If you didn't do at least one of the last two lines,
> there could be GBs of data still uncommitted for
> minutes.
> 
> 
> On 2015-11-15 12:36, ioan stan wrote:
>> Please see below.
>> I did a new install, with xz , just as in your guide.
>> The card is made by SanDisk (16G SDHC Card)
>> root@localhost ioan]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
>> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disk label type: dos
>> Disk identifier: 0x00081fe2
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sdb1 1050624 3999743 1474560 bf Solaris
>> /dev/sdb4 2048 1050623 524288 83 Linux
>> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>> [root@localhost ioan]#
>>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> On 15/11/15 09:57, ioan stan wrote:
>>>> Also, since the dreamplug is not that powerful, would it be
>>>> possible to
>>>> build the image based on the minimal server? If somebody wants to
>>>> add
>>>> any GUI capability, this could be done later from repository.
>>> The images are all minimal with no GUI already.
>>>> I tried to install RSEL on my new and faster SD card. I couldn't
>>>> complete the install. zfs-fuse is running but I cannot import the
>>>> zpool.
>>> Did you initialize the new SD card from the image, or did you dd
>>> the content of the old card onto the new card?
>>> What is the make/model of your new card, and where did you buy it?
>>>> pre-mount:/etc# ps -auxw | grep zfs
>>>> root 164 0.0 0.5 18656 2616 ? Ssl 00:00 0:00 @bin/zfs-fuse
>>>> root 232 0.0 0.1 2568 688 ttyS0S+ 00:06 0:00 grep zfs
>>>> pre-mount:/etc# zpool import
>>>> pre-mount:/etc# zpool status
>>>> no pools available
>>> Are you using the internal uSD card (/dev/sda) or external full size
>>> SD card (/dev/sdb)?
>>> What do you get get from (assuming external full size card):
>>> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>>> Gordan
>>> On Nov 8, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> For those who share my appreciation of zfs, I will be releasing
>>> a patch to zfs-fuse-dracut package that facilitates better
>>> functioning when it is used for zfs-root.
>>> Problem:
>>> zfs-fuse relies on /proc and /dev for importing new pools.
>>> Unfortunately, when it runs from initramfs, systemd, tears down
>>> all of it's contents - the only file handles that remain
>>> available to zfs-fuse are the ones it already has open at the
>>> point the tear-down happens.
>>> Workaround:
>>> Don't use initramfs. The problem is that this means we need a
>>> different pre-root environment for zfs-fuse to run in. What we
>>> can use is squashfs running from a raw partition. That does me
>>> we need an additional partition on the disk, but that is hardly
>>> the end of the world.
>>> We simply unpack the initramfs generated, and re-make it as a
>>> squashfs.
>>> So what we do is we pass to the kernel:
>>> root=/dev/werever_we_put_squashfs_partition
>>> That gets is booting the pre-root environment, but then we have
>>> to do something for the pre-root environment to mount the real
>>> rootfs. This is where the new zfs-fuse-dracut patch comes in.
>>> It now understands a kernel boot paramter zfsroot=pool/fs, which
>>> it will use in preference to root= to determine what FS to use
>>> as the rootfs.
>>> Effect:
>>> Because the rootfs is read-only squashfs it doesn't get torn
>>> down, and zfs-fuse remains fully functional, able to import
>>> new pools (e.g. from removable media).
>>> Side effect:
>>> Init fs ends up showing up mounted on /mnt.
>>> I will put together a more detailed howto on the conversion of
>>> initramfs to squashfs for those that need it once I have
>>> released the zfs-fuse-dracut patch.
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