"ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" type errors with 7.0-RC1
Ivan Voras
ivoras at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 26 12:28:40 PST 2008
Henri Hennebert wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:17:24PM -0700, Joe Peterson wrote:
>>> Glad you got it back! Yes, when I was first playing with ZFS, I noticed
>>> that booting between single and multi user mode could make the pools
>>> "invisible". Import seemed to bring them back...
>>
>> I did go into single-user mode and attempt to do ZFS-related commands,
>> which might explain the "no datasets available" once I was back in
>> multiuser! I would classify that as a bug, and one which is going to
>> cause all sorts of hair-pulling for administrators in the future. I
>> wonder what it's caused by.
>
> In single user / is read only and so /boot/zfs/zpool.cache can't be
> created/updated
But it's still readable. The issue is that hostid isn't set (by
/etc/rc.d/hostid).
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