I am to silly to mount a zpool while boot
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Am 01.03.2013 23:59, schrieb 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 <mailto: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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> --
> Freddie Cash
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The mountpoint of tank/home is set to /home. The output looks like this:
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
tank/home mountpoint /home local
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