[CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI
Teske, Devin
Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com
Sat Oct 19 15:43:30 UTC 2013
On Oct 19, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2013-10-19 11:31, Johan Broman wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19/10/13 17:23, Allan Jude wrote:
>>> On 2013-10-19 10:56, Johan Broman wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Just tested the root-on-ZFS install option using FreeBSD 10 beta 1. I
>>>> have 4 SATA drives in my server. I select all four of them in a RAIDZ1
>>>> setup. I hit enter to continue the installation and the zpool is
>>>> created, but I'm then returned to the zpool selection screen again. It
>>>> turned out that two of the drives had previously been used in a
>>>> (Linux) software mirror setup and because of this they got activated
>>>> in /dev/raid/r0. Because of this I ended up in an endless bsdinstall
>>>> loop.
>>>>
>>>> Removing the raid device using the graid command resolved the
>>>> situation.
>>>>
>>>> Now maybe this is working as designed, but there was no warning/alert
>>>> to the fact that the devices couldn't be used. Perhaps a warning
>>>> should be rasied in this situation?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the great work on the new installer, really looking
>>>> forward to FreeBSD 10!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Johan
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>>> Errors like that normally generate a msgbox dialog with the error output
>>> from whichever command failed. I'll have to dig into it and see where
>>> that problem is. I've seen other people have problems creating ZFS
>>> arrays after graid, but in that case it was an incomplete graid label
>>> causing a device to be locked but not appear in the graid status output.
>>>
>>
>> Ah ok. A msgbox did appear but the drives that had the problem (ada2
>> and ada3) wasn't visible in the output. (not sure if the box itself
>> has a size limit or maybe I was just unable to scroll down and see the
>> errors?). The only visible output was that it was able to create
>> labels on ada0 and ada1.
>>
>> /Johan
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> Ahh yes, you have to press 'page-down' to scroll the msgbox. I tried to
> add a scrollbar but turns out that is not possible.
>
> The only indication that there is more message to read, is a small 'xx%'
> in the bottom right. We might have to look at breaking that output up or
> something.
>
The only reason for a msgbox widget to scroll is if it is displayed at
maximum height or width of the screen and it *still* has more data
to display than can be presented at-once.
If... however... the msgbox widget is *not* full-height or full-width
yet... it is requiring you to scroll -- then we've found a bug.
Can we get a screen shot?
--
Devin
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