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alie
September 22nd, 2009, 11:19
Hi guys,

I have simple question regarding FreeBSD 8.0 RC1:
Is ZFS enabled on FreeBSD8.0 sysinstall ? Sorry to ask this question since i dont have enough time to install FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 and i have limited free disk space on my HDD. I needs someone that have an experience with FreeBSD 8.0 RC1
phoenix
September 22nd, 2009, 16:46
No. Sysinstall does not currently support anything other than plain UFS on standard slices/partitions.
danger@
September 22nd, 2009, 17:42
well you can switch from sysinstall to fixit environment and create zfs-only system yourself. mfsBSD is also pretty useful for this task.
eydaimon
October 2nd, 2009, 08:00
@danger do you have any links which will explain how this can be done? I had high hopes that 8.0 would be more ZFS friendly.
danger@
October 2nd, 2009, 08:14
The post at http://blogs.freebsdish.org/lulf/2008/12/16/setting-up-a-zfs-only-system/ describes how to install zfs on root, using GPT (which is quiet nice). I have done it several times inspiring by this howto and it works well.

Note, that I have never used the fixit environment from the installation CD to accomplish this task, I have rather used the mfsBSD (http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/) to create a bootable iso file and did all the steps from there. For a few hints, you can read my article at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/article.html about mfsBSD.
eydaimon
October 2nd, 2009, 16:18
I've read the article before. Would you be able to do a replace on the root drive with that setup? (you can on solaris)
eydaimon
October 12th, 2009, 16:57
bump my question :)
eydaimon
November 28th, 2009, 21:11
The article is no longer loading, and 8.0 was finally released for me to try this with.

Is there an easier way since (mfsBSD seems more complicated) ?
BeautifulFish
December 1st, 2009, 04:10
they are all too complicated :\

i spent some hours trying to get zfs to work with 8.0-release on virtualbox, i was getting close to success but then there was that kernel panic: kmem_map too small

why isn't zfs in sysinstall just like ufs? it is very frustrating :(
Blueprint
December 1st, 2009, 05:08
Probably because of licensing.

The GPT method in http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ is pretty straight forward and accurate. Just pick which disk config you want to use.

How much ram are you allocating to your virtual machine?
BeautifulFish
December 1st, 2009, 06:57
thanks very much, i was about to give up, i was using 768M only, i increased it to 1500M so it worked without that error, but now i have more errors..

this is the guide i am following:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot

there is no lib32 directory, instead there is proflibs, should i use it?

also when i got to the point:
make depend

i had an error regarding:
zroot/usr/lib/libstand.a

then it stopped, "make" didn't work and i had to restart the process again
Blueprint
December 1st, 2009, 08:08
It sounds like you have the wrong disc mounted. I find it easiest to use the dvd for this zfs install.

I'm not sure if you can use the disc1 + livefs combo because at that point in the guide (2.2) it seems to me that the install will want disc1 mounted again.

Unless you can umount livefs cd and mount disc1 while being in fixit. I dunno, ive only just started using freebsd myself.
BeautifulFish
December 1st, 2009, 08:19
oh i am using the dvd :)
the kernel panic is back again even with 1.5G RAM :\

maybe i will print the guide and try it on my real freebsd installation

it will suck though if it get screwed as i installed many things, including nvidia and compiz
EDIT-1: oh of course everything will be gone lol

btw a side question: is there a way to store .tbz files downloaded through pkg_add -r
can pkg_add -r look first in a directory to find .tbz files then if not found try to fetch them through ftp?


EDIT-2: following that guide, i now have ZFS :e
http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs

EDIT-3: actually i got it working now by followin this one:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
twh
January 13th, 2010, 03:54
oh i am using the dvd :)
the kernel panic is back again even with 1.5G RAM :\

maybe i will print the guide and try it on my real freebsd installation

it will suck though if it get screwed as i installed many things, including nvidia and compiz
EDIT-1: oh of course everything will be gone lol

btw a side question: is there a way to store .tbz files downloaded through pkg_add -r
can pkg_add -r look first in a directory to find .tbz files then if not found try to fetch them through ftp?


EDIT-2: following that guide, i now have ZFS :e
http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/articles/freebsdzfs

EDIT-3: actually i got it working now by followin this one:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot

ZFS is extremely memory intensive. 1.5GB of RAM isn't going to be enough, especially if you plan to write large amounts of data. Using GB ethernet and SATA300, I was able to cause a panic with 4GB of RAM on a TB array. 8GB is the sweet spot if you are going to be running any kind of heavy load. You will need x64 kernel if you plan to go over 4GB of memory.
Enter4
January 13th, 2010, 18:51
Does anybody know what to do after this guide (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=boot+loader+too+large&titlesearch=Titles) was instaled "successfully" and doesnt work properly? Error: Boot loader too large.
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