ZFS does not load and mount at boot time
Borja Marcos
borjamar at sarenet.es
Wed Jun 20 10:27:34 UTC 2007
> I have now moved zfs.cache to /etc/zfs and load the module via
> rc.conf. I
> have also included the saving of zfs.cache on /cfg in "zfs stop"
> and set
> KEYWORD: shutdown for zfs. However, I still get
>
> ZFS: WARNING: pool 'tank' could not be loaded as it was last
> accessed by
> another system (host: eclipse.aei.uni-hannover.de hostid: 0xf7ab4bd6).
> See: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-EY
>
> when booting. Any further ideas?
>
Yes. I've run into the same problem when installing a new machine
with the June FreeBSD 7 snapshot, cvsupping yesterday, and trying to
set up /usr and /var in ZFS.
It seems ZFS labels the pools it creates using the hostname and the
hostid. The hostid is a unique number present in ROM/flash in Sun
machines, and it turns out one of the IP addresses of the machine is
used by FreeBSD as hostid.
I had booted into multiuser, created a pool, and created three
filesystems, say zfs/usr, zfs/var and zfs/home.
After copying /var, /usr and /home to the new zfs filesystems, I
rebooted in single user in order to edit /etc/fstab to remove the
references to them and change the ZFS mountpoints to the proper
places, and I've run across the same problem. The ZFS pool was
labelled with the hostname (still not set) and the hostid (still not
set, as the network interfaces are initialised *AFTER* the
filesystems are mounted).
I've solved the problem in a quick and dirty way forcing the system
to import the ZFS pool despite the fact that it believes it's been
used by another host. The ugly kludge is simply to edit /etc/rc.d/zfs
and add "zfs pool import -f poolname" to the zfs_start_main() section
right after "zfs volinit".
zfs_start_main()
{
zfs volinit
zpool import -f pruebazfs
zfs mount -a
zfs share -a
if [ ! -r /etc/zfs/exports ]; then
touch /etc/zfs/exports
fi
Ugly but it works. It seems it's necessary to either rethink that ZFS
behavior (which is desirable), or set the hostname as soon as
possible. Regarding the hostid, it's trickier than it seems. But
anyway I don't think it's a good idea to use an IP address (which of
them?) as a hostid. A simple IP address change could be quite
confusing for an unaware administrator.
Borja.
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