failure to create zfs storage pool

[Darrel]

>>
>> After getting a couple of Hitachi 1T 7200 rpm drives, it seemed
>> like time for ZFS on FreeBSD82, having not had Z file system
>> subsequent to retiring whatever OpenSolaris was around.
>>
>> Basically, I followed this article:
>>
>> /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/installation.html
>>
>> Previous to this, I had been using sysinstall.
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 count=2
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6 count=2
>>
>> fdisk -BI ad4
>> fdisk -BI ad6
>>
>> bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad4s1
>> bsdlabel -wB /dev/ad6s1
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> bsdlabel -e /dev/ad4s1
>>
>>  a:  1G        16      4.2BSD  1024    8192    0
>>  b:  5G        *       swap
>>  c:  blah,blah
>>  d:  20G       *       4.2BSD  2048    16384   0
>>  e:  20G       *       4.2BSD  2048    16384   0
>>  f:  *         *       unused  0       0
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> bsdlabel /dev/ad4s1 > /tmp/bsdlabel.txt && bsdlabel -R \
>>        /dev/ad6s1 /tmp/bsdlabel.txt
>>
>> Now it was way past midnight, I cannot recall but might have run
>> this:
>>
>> gmirror label -nb round-robin gm0 ad4s1 ad6s1
>>
>> I ran these:
>>
>> gmirror label root ad4s1a ad6s1a
>> gmirror label var ad4s1d ad6s1d
>> gmirror label usr ad4s1e ad6s1e
>> gmirror label -F swap ad4s1b ad6s1b
>> gmirror load
>>
>> newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/mirror/root
>> newfs /dev/mirror/var
>> newfs /dev/mirror/usr
>>
>> mount /dev/mirror/root /mnt
>> mkdir /mnt/var /mnt/usr
>> mount /dev/mirror/var /mnt/var
>> mount /dev/mirror/usr /mnt/usr
>>
>> So I got the files with 'ftp passive' and followed the article all
>> to the 'reboot' command.  Seemed okay.
>>
>> Now at the next page of the article:
>>
>> /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/zfs.html
>>
>> Having read several articles and the zpool manual page, I still
>> have failed to create any kind of ZFS storage pool.
>>

>
>
> How about you scrape the gmirror altogether and use ZFS's mirror instead ?
>
> This way, you could also use the whole disks for ZFs instead of having to create labels and slices...

Well, I might even do this today.  I still intend to run FreeBSD on it.

So, perhaps something like this?:

http://www.b0rken.org/freebsd/zfs.html

Darrel