Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-29 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:44+0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > So, I'm still struggling with my problem when I cannot boot from a big > zfs 2T pool (I have written some messages about a year ago, the whole > story is too long and irrelevant to retell it, I'll only notice that I > took the pa

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread Johannes Totz
On 28/04/2016 08:44, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > So, I'm still struggling with my problem when I cannot boot from a big > zfs 2T pool (I have written some messages about a year ago, the whole > story is too long and irrelevant to retell it, I'll only notice that I > took the path where I'm

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
And with this feature, if I understood correctly, old kernel keeps on running after this type of reboot. If so, kernel modules loaded via /etc/rc.conf[.local] can cause version mismatch with running kernel, forcing single user mode. So I'd prefer making 'zboot' pool as real rootfs and mount needed

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
Finished at r293744 (MFC of r290548), right? https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-stable-10/2016-January/007753.html On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:57:44 +0100 Steven Hartland wrote: > I thought that was in 10.3 as well? > > > On 28/04/2016 11:55, krad wrote: > > I think the new pivotroot t

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 11:52:27 +0100 krad wrote: > I would not use the root dataset. Create a ROOT/ one so it looks for > the kernel in "zboot:/ROOT/fist/boot/kernel/kernel" or similar. This way > you are compatible with beadm. And of course, dataset zboot:/ROOT/fist in above example should set as

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread Steven Hartland
I thought that was in 10.3 as well? On 28/04/2016 11:55, krad wrote: I think the new pivotroot type stuff in 11 may help a lot with this https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.html#Root-Remount On 28 April 2016 at 10:31, Malcolm Herbert wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread krad
I think the new pivotroot type stuff in 11 may help a lot with this https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.html#Root-Remount On 28 April 2016 at 10:31, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:44:28PM +0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > |So, I'm still struggling

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread krad
I would not use the root dataset. Create a ROOT/ one so it looks for the kernel in "zboot:/ROOT/fist/boot/kernel/kernel" or similar. This way you are compatible with beadm. On 28 April 2016 at 08:44, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > So, I'm still struggling with my problem when I cannot boo

Re: booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread Malcolm Herbert
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:44:28PM +0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: |So, I'm still struggling with my problem when I cannot boot from a big |zfs 2T pool (I have written some messages about a year ago, the whole |story is too long and irrelevant to retell it, I'll only notice that I |took the path w

booting from separate zfs pool

2016-04-28 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hi. So, I'm still struggling with my problem when I cannot boot from a big zfs 2T pool (I have written some messages about a year ago, the whole story is too long and irrelevant to retell it, I'll only notice that I took the path where I'm about to boot from a separate zfs pool closer to the begin