failure to create zfs storage pool

[krad]

On 3 June 2011 21:41, <levitch at iglou.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
> Darrel
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are you trying to do zfs root or just have a freebsd system with a zpool?

You could take the real easy way of getting zfsroot, and install freebsd via
pc-bsd install cd and that would do all the hard work