Installation progress

[Chad J. Milios]

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 4:32 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/19/15 14:49, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:34:38 -0453.75
>> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, I finally pulled the trigger on a ZFS install on my myth-TV
>>> box-to-be and .... Everything basically worked, 2 glitches, but I got
>>> worked around them & it is up & running, w/ 2X 1 TB 7200 RPM 2.5" HDD's
>>> in an unmirrored pool, about 1.8 TiB total pool size. I am configuring
>>> it now, & have a couple of questions. If I want it to be a NFS server &
>>> export /home, do I just use that reference verbatim in my /etc/exports
>>> file & crank the server or is there more to it ?
>>    You can do that, but just as ZFS has inbuilt support for managing
>> mounting of filesystems by setting the mountpoint property it also has
>> inbuilt support for managing NFS exports via the sharenfs property. Do one
>> or the other - not both. I started out using /etc/exports and switched to
>> ZFS properties for reasons I have now forgotten.
> 
> I just set sharenfs:
> 
> 
> [root at mythbox, /etc, 3:25:23pm] 295 % df -h ; hddtemp /dev/ada[0-3] ; w ; pstat -hms ; uname -a ; hwclock -r ; date
> Filesystem          Type     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> zroot/ROOT/default  zfs      1.8T    450M    1.8T     0%    /
> devfs               devfs    1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev
> zroot/home          zfs      1.8T    208k    1.8T     0%    /home
> zroot/tmp           zfs      1.8T    184k    1.8T     0%    /tmp
> zroot/usr           zfs      1.8T    1.3G    1.8T     0%    /usr
> zroot/usr/local     zfs      1.8T    9.3M    1.8T     0% /usr/local
> zroot/var           zfs      1.8T    624k    1.8T     0%    /var
> zroot/var/crash     zfs      1.8T    148k    1.8T     0% /var/crash
> zroot/var/db        zfs      1.8T    3.1M    1.8T     0%    /var/db
> zroot/var/db/pkg    zfs      1.8T     25M    1.8T     0% /var/db/pkg
> zroot/var/empty     zfs      1.8T    144k    1.8T     0% /var/empty
> zroot/var/log       zfs      1.8T    208k    1.8T     0%    /var/log
> zroot/var/mail      zfs      1.8T    144k    1.8T     0% /var/mail
> zroot/var/run       zfs      1.8T    216k    1.8T     0%    /var/run
> zroot/var/tmp       zfs      1.8T    152k    1.8T     0%    /var/tmp
> hddtemp: Command not found.
> 3:25PM  up  5:29, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER       TTY      FROM                      LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> root       v0       -                        11:09PM     - -csh (csh)
> wam        pts/0    kabini1.local             2:45PM    26 -tcsh (tcsh)
> wam        pts/1    kabini1.local             2:37PM     - w
> Device          1M-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/gpt/swap0      16384       0B      16G     0%
> /dev/gpt/swap1      16384       0B      16G     0%
> Total               32768       0B      32G     0%
> FreeBSD mythbox 9.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE #0 r268512: Thu Jul 10 23:44:39 UTC 2014 root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> hwclock: Command not found.
> Mon Oct 19 15:25:30 MCDT 2015
> [root at mythbox, /etc, 3:25:30pm] 296 % zfs set sharenfs=on zroot/home
> [root at mythbox, /etc, 3:25:45pm] 297 % zfs share -a
> 
> However, when I try to mount the shared 'directory', I get the following on the other box (also FreeBSD 9.3R, as it happens):
> 
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 3:33:43pm] 372 % lf /net/4256ee1/home/ /net/mythbox/home/  /net/q6600/home/; date
> ls: /net/mythbox/home/: Operation timed out
> /net/4256ee1/home/:
> FTP/     ISOs/    archive/ pub/     rsync/   wam/     work/
> 
> /net/q6600/home/:
> FTP/          ISOs/         VMs/          archive/ lost+found/   mnt/          rsync/        wam/ work/         zaliases.csh  zaliases.sh
> Mon Oct 19 15:34:02 MCDT 2015
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 3:34:02pm] 373 %
> 
> & in my messages file:
> 
> 
> Oct 19 15:19:40 kabini1 amd[31334]: get_mount_client failed for mythbox: : RPC: Program not registered
> Oct 19 15:19:40 kabini1 amd[782]: /net/mythbox: mount (amfs_cont): Input/output error
> Oct 19 15:20:33 kabini1 amd[31392]: get_mount_client failed for mythbox: : RPC: Program not registered
> Oct 19 15:20:33 kabini1 amd[782]: /net/mythbox: mount (amfs_cont): Input/output error
> Oct 19 15:27:47 kabini1 amd[31851]: get_mount_client failed for mythbox: : RPC: Program not registered
> Oct 19 15:27:47 kabini1 amd[782]: /net/mythbox: mount (amfs_cont): Input/output error
> 
> 
> Nothing in any of the log files on the myth-box. Pilot error, I'm sure, but any clues appreciated. Thanks & TIA & have a good one.
> 
> 
>> 
>>> Also, is use of tmpfs
>>> compatible/OK w/ ZFS 'filesystem' ?
>>    Sure no reason why you shouldn't use both, except perhaps for
>> memory pressure.
> 
> Fair amount of RAM here (16 GB), so I think I'll activate tmpfs, thanks.
> 
> -- 
> 
>    William A. Mahaffey III
> 

I believe the problem is that u still need to start the nfsd and rpcbind services, u just don't have to manually manage /etc/exports anymore when using the ZFS properties.

I think u will be pleased with tmpfs.