The zfs and zpool commands are nonfunctional in the fixit shell of the 7.0-BETA4-i386-livefs.iso cd image. When either command is run, the result is "internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library". How-To-Repeat: 1. Boot from 7.0-BETA4-i386-livefs.iso. 2. Select country. 3. Select Fixit. 4. Select CDROM/DVD. 5. Try to run "zfs" or "zpool".
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->pjd Hello Pawel, you probably know best what to do with this (or how to get this properly supported) so forwarding the ticket to you ;-)
Responsible Changed From-To: pjd->freebsd-fs With pjd's permission, reassing ZFS-related PRs to freebsd-fs.
I am also having this very same problem on my 7.2-RELEASE/amd64, kinda hard to debug ZFS issues when you cannot interact with ZFS from Fixit... - Dan Naumov
This should be moved to -docs, here is why: I managed to figure it out after having some of my hair go gray: when you are in FIXIT, you have to do "kldload /dist/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko; kldload /dist/boot/kernel/zfs.ko" in that particular order (because automatic loading of kernel module dependencies does not work in FIXIT). After this, "zpool" and "zfs" will start working. The ZFS part of the Handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html ) makes no mention about this, I think a small note in there is in order. Sincerely, Dan Naumov
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Automatic dependencies load should work from fixit. I think the problem is that kern.module_path isn't configured properly. Are you able to verify that? If that's the case can you manually set kern.module_path to /dist/boot/kernel and see if that will make it to work?
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-fs->pjd I'm back, so take it back.
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