[geeks] operating systems to replace Solaris

[Shannon]

On Apr 12, 2011, at 16:03 , Mike Meredith wrote:

> That's one of the main reasons why I went with FreeBSD.

Today I tested a ZFS install of FreeBSD 8.2 on VMWare.

I have one issue: when the system boots, the root filesystem is temporary
readonly, which causes the boot to fail. It says it is trying to mount
pool0/zroot as the root filesystem then says it cannot write to /etc/rc.conf
and goes to the maintenance shell prompt.

Going to the maint shell when prompted I can fix it:

% zfs set readonly=off pool0/zroot
% exit

...and the system boots up normally.

I cannot figure out why this is happening.

If I run "zfs get readonly" it does show pool0/zroot is temporarily read only.
Default and setting is readonly=off so not sure what is up.

I assume that FreeBSD keeps root read-only when first booting up, but for some
reason this is causing some grief to the rc scripts and they are aborting when
they cannot write to /etc/rc.conf.

Otherwise once I get it running, it passes every test so far, at least on this
virtual machine.

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