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    ZFS Mounting Problems

    I agree this is a bug, caused by a feature, and is very problematic, causing additional downtime having to resort to IMPI to reboot my servers. However recently i have have discovered the -O (overlay) option for the zfs mount command. Yet i am unsure how safe the overlay mount option is or...
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    ZFS Mounting Problems

    Hello all i have some ongoing issues with ZFS not always mounting properly, after reboot. I tried some full ZFS (system installed to rpool) installs awhile back but this setup seemed to unstable for me grub errors and disks not found all that sort of thing. Anyways for now i have moved to...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    I have installed using the newest 3.4-102d4547-6 ISO and setup zfs raid 1 however i get this on my first boot It worked before so i tried this routine again unsuccessfully zpool export rpool && zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id rpool -R /root exit # which will boot proxmox actually i had...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    That's great news, thanks for all your hard work, I'm really looking forward to it. Getting sick of hacking around and trying to make things work on my own, zol is still a bit tricky with linux and the proxmox ISO and xorriso is a bit complex. So thanks for putting all the pieces together for...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    I have tried multiple installs with the 3.4 iso and it usually doesn't work for me with zfs mostly after updating the system with apt-get update, i'm sure this has more to do with my strange setup, than it does with Proxmox. However things seem to work perfectly with ext3/4, but now that i have...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    Super excited about that patiently awaiting upload ... and thanks in advance!
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    Just for full discloser i am running proxmox with 3 zfs pools for a couple of small setups; rpool which is zfs raid1 on 2 32G USB sticks i know not the best idea but i moved swap to another pool and will do some other tweaks, like maybe even moving /var/lib/vz to another pool to make sure they...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    Opps i Nemesiz i missed your post however i like your one line solution better than the one i found however this is still not a permanent fix as on reboot i end up with the same error ... not ideal for a remote system what if someone reboots it?
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    # zpool export rpool : now export all other pools too # zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id -f -N rpool NOT working but does work with i mount by pool id # : now import all other pools too # mount -t zfs rpool/ROOT/debian-1 /root : do not mount any other filesystem # cp /etc/zfs/zpool.cache...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    Ok i did a fresh reinstall of proxmox 3.4 using a zfs raid1 mirror, and tested to see have resilient things were by removing a bunch of drives i even tried booting another system, as i want this setup to be portable and it was. Let me repeat i removed drives, proxomox booted fine zpools...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    Just a flashing cursor ... sorry not very helpful information ... so i did a reinstall using the proxmox cd and am trying to restore rpool from a snapshot backup right now ... pretty sure it has to do with /dev names moving around really wish i could get /dev/by-id working ... not so trivial...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    As always thank so very much for your quick reply, and i now understand that it is not really usually a problem so not a priority for me either i have already run into a few problems because of this but they are probably caused my me trying to do something with proxmox i shouldnt. However i do...
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    Proxomx 3.4 zfs root install not using by-id?

    Hello all i am using the latest install cd proxmox 3.4, and have setup zfs raid1, however my zpool status shows /dev/sde /dev/sdf which is not the recommended way to setup a pool? why does the proxmox install do this? Anyways I would like switch these do /dev/by-id style entries as each time i...
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    apt-get update results in waiting for headers and does not update

    I was wondering if there was any information about this bug, as i do not think it is a bug at all, but rather a hardware/software issue with virtio and pfsense. I had this problem before and solved it took days, but could not remember exactly how i solved it. However in had the same problem...
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    New ZFS 3.4 install booting to grub rescue prompt

    Ok i have made some headway on my own through slow and painful experimentation. So far i have determined that this board/SAS controller will only works correctly (with raidz) in IR mode. I tried to flash IT (JBOD) firmware as i did not want LSI raid functionality as i am going to be using zfs...
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    New ZFS 3.4 install booting to grub rescue prompt

    Ok i have tried a bunch of installs (my desired install would be zfs raidz1 ) with the above mentioned board and the only configuration i can get to boot is zfs raid1 it works with 2 or 3 drives i cannot get any other configurations to work including zfs raid0 with only 2 drives ... I do not get...
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    New ZFS 3.4 install booting to grub rescue prompt

    Something else to note, i have done a zfs RAID1 install and it works, However this machine has 3 SAS drives and I want to use them all argh. I NEED to get the RAIDZ-1 working with Proxmox.
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    New ZFS 3.4 install booting to grub rescue prompt

    Hello all i am trying to get proxmox 3.4 installed using ZRAID-1 on my supermicro x10sl7-f with onboard sli 2309 disk controller flashed to IT mode for use with zfs. The install seems to go well, but reboot always dumps me to error: couldn't find a necessary member device of multi-device...
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    Proxmox upgrade from 2 to 3 grub issues

    hmmm i guess nobody else is having this issue?
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    Proxmox upgrade from 2 to 3 grub issues

    Hello all i did the upgrade using the upgrade script ... however on a not standard install as i originally installed from Debian 6 so i could use raid 1 ... everything worked well and i had one successful reboot but after running the script in purge mode it seemed to delete a bunch of important...