Mounting ZVOLs automatically at boot time

Vlad GALU dudu at dudu.ro
Wed May 27 09:30:11 UTC 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:02:43AM +0300, Vlad GALU wrote:
>> Hello, is there a way to do $subj? rc.d/zfs only takes care of
>> regular, ZFS, volumes. I have a ZVOL holding an UFS2 fs inside my ~,
>> which I need for extattrs, I'd also like to have it mounted
>> automatically at boot time.
>
> ZFS can only make ZVOLs visible automatically (by running zfs volinit)
> and it does that. If you have a file system in there you need to add it
> to /etc/fstab.
>

Hi Pawel,
Well,  I did so, but at the time fstab is parsed the rc.d/zfs script
hasn't issued "zfs volinit" yet, so mounting fails. I had to mark it
as noauto and mount it by hand, later on.


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