zpool create fails on gpart device

[Kurt Touet]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:03:09PM -0600, Kurt Touet wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:34:13PM -0600, Kurt Touet wrote:
>> >> I've been interested in using a gptzfsboot setup on a few of my
>> >> systems, and thought I'd try it out in a VM first, but I'm blocked at
>> >> creating a zpool.  Here's what I did:
>> >>
>> >> - create a new VM with 2 drives (da0 & da1)
>> >> - install 8.0R amd64
>> >> - install subversion from sysinstall & checkout base/head
>> >> - build & install -current
>> >>
>> >> Instead of creating a gptzfsboot install disc, I thought I'd just
>> >> create the zpool on the second drive, install things to there, and
>> >> then make the VM boot off the second drive afterwards (and remove the
>> >> first).  I was following the
>> >> http://blogs.freebsdish.org/lulf/2008/12/16/setting-up-a-zfs-only-system/
>> >> guide, and got to this stage:
>> >>
>> >> # gpart create -s GPT da1
>> >> # gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd-boot da1
>> >> # gpart add -b 162 -s 5242880 -t freebsd-swap da1
>> >> # gpart add -b 5243042 -s 57671485 -t freebsd-zfs da1
>> >> # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da1
>> >>
>> >> # gpart show da1
>> >> =>      34  62914493  da1  GPT  (30G)
>> >>         34       128    1  freebsd-boot  (64K)
>> >>        162   5242880    2  freebsd-swap  (2.5G)
>> >>    5243042  57671485    3  freebsd-zfs  (27G)
>> >>
>> >> # zpool create data /dev/da1p3
>> >> cannot create 'data': permission denied
>
> Ok, I guess this is HEAD, right? I think you just had bad luck.
>
> I break this here:
>
>        Date: Sat Dec  5 14:24:22 2009
>        New Revision: 200125
>
> And fixed here:
>
>        Date: Sat Dec  5 20:16:28 2009
>        New Revision: 200158
>
> It looks like you get the source from this window.
>
> Please rebuild with r200158 in place and retry. Sorry for the breakage.
>
> --
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
> pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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>

I think I managed to miss that -- I'm running FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0
r200177 amd64.  But, I will update again and see if that solves the
problem.