I am to silly to mount a zpool while boot

[Freddie Cash]

What's the output of:

zfs get mountpoint tank/home


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:31 PM, tech mailinglists <
mailinglists.tech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Am 01.03.2013 13:03, schrieb Peter Maloney:
>
>> For the mount, don't use fstab. use:
>>
>> zfs set mountpoint=/home poolname/path/to/dataset
>>
>> And for the import, add
>>
>> zfs_enable="YES"
>>
>> to rc.conf.
>>
>>
>> And I think that's it. (all my FreeBSD systems are pure zfs, so not sure
>> what troubles you would get if you had UFS on root)
>>
>>
>> On 2013-03-01 12:26, tech mailinglists wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I think that I only can be an idiot to get in such a problem but I am
>>> not able to mount a zpool via fstab while boot.
>>>
>>> I have a FreeBSD i386 PV Xen DomU running with 3 disks xbd0 (ext2 for
>>> /boot), xbd1 (UFS for /) and xbd2 (ZFS/zpool with name home to mount
>>> at /home).
>>>
>>> I now tried everything I could find. So my fstab entry looks like this:
>>>
>>> home            /home   zfs     rw,late 0       0
>>>
>>> The real problem is that after a reboot the zpool is no longer
>>> imported, I really don't know why I always have to reimport the pool
>>> via zpool import -d /dev home. Because of this the filesystem never
>>> can be mounted via fstab while boot and I get dropped into a shell
>>> where I need to do this always manually.
>>>
>>> So why the pool always isn't imported after boot and how can I solve
>>> this issue?
>>>
>>> And is the fstab entry correct itself? So would it work when the pool
>>> gets imported with it's name befor the fstab entry is parsed?
>>>
>>> Hope that someone give me a few hints or a solution.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
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>>
> Hello all,
>
> a few of the things I already had done. But the real problem is I think
> that the pool doesn't get imported automatically. I read that ZFS searches
> in special directories when it tries to import. So is there a way to set an
> option which says that it should search in /dev? I always have to do this
> after reboot:
>
> zpool import -d /dev tank
>
> Than tank (pool) gets mounted at /tank and the zvol tank/home gets mounted
> on /home.
>
> So I think that the import of the zpool fails. I have set zfs_enable="YES"
> in /etc/rc.conf also zfs_load=YES as boot parameter which gets shown in
> kenv and commented out the fstab entry. So I read that the import normally
> should work automatically when the module is loaded and zfs is enabled but
> I think the fact that my pool is located on /dev/xbd2 is the problem.
>
> Best Regards
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