was just experimenting with zfs on a spare slice on the disc - this may all be entirely my fault for doing it worng, if so please tell me, but I appear to be gettign a zfs pool ounted on reboot but with none of the data appearing in it! what I did: 1) take a space slice, only got one partition on it being 'c' the whole disc 2) glabeled it as 'zfstest' so it appears in /dev/label/zfstest 3) create a pool with 'zpool create tank /dev/label/zfstest 4) create another file system on it as 'zfs create tank/newfs' 5) sprinkle some files into both directories so thois gives me a /tank and a /tank/newfs, with some files in them (there was no /tank director previously). I can zpool export and zpool import the tank and it all works fine. so then I reboot ...and after reboot I get /tank, but it is empty! a 'zpool status' tells me that the pool is there and imported, but it doesnt show up when I type 'mount'. If I do an export and import then all the files appear again and the filesystem shows up in 'mount' though. any ideas ? it is obviosuly finding the pool, but not mounting any of the files systems from the looks of things. -pete.
O.K., even odder - it seems that something is creating a real '/tank' directory in '/' for some reaosn, but not mounting the filesystems onto it. when I reboot I get this: # zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 label/zfstest ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT tank 134K 29.3G 21.5K /tank tank/newfs 18.5K 29.3G 18.5K /tank/newfs but nothing is actually mouunted. a quick 'zpool export tank' followed by a 'zpool import tank' fixes this, but surely it should either mount them at boot or not ,ount them at boot ? saying they are mounted when they actuall arent seems wrong... -pete.
heh I had the same prob a couple days back. Check the archives last week, 10DEC07 "Re: Various Issues with 7.0-BETA4" Step by step directions on how to fix
> heh I had the same prob a couple days back. Check the archives last > week, 10DEC07 "Re: Various Issues with 7.0-BETA4"actually, it wsa that thread which motivated me to experiment ... and I was thinking all along "must remember to add zfs to loader.conf to avoid that". Of course I then forgot to add zfs_enable to rc.conf! doh... sorry for the noise, and thanks for the pointer - works fine now. -pete.