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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:28 pm    Post subject: zpool create failure Reply with quote

Having problems creating a raidz2 zfs pool. This is a new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, with the 870E chipset (relatively new).
Disk are brand new Seagate Enterprise 8GB drives.

Code:
livecd /etc/init.d # zpool create -f scratch raidz2 sda sdb sdc sdd sde sdf
cannot label 'sda': failed to detect device partitions on '/dev/sda1': 19
Error preparing/labeling disk.

livecd /etc/init.d # parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA ST8000NM0045-1RL (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 8002GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      8389kB  8001GB  8001GB               zfs-390b67c250463a8f
 9      8001GB  8002GB  67.1MB


I've done similar things successfully in the past. These will be the only non-nvme disk in the system, so the device names are highly unlikely to change.

I've tried dd zeroing sda, no change.

Would sure appreciate some suggestions!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2024 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Myself, I've never tried bare devices, but rather only ever partitioned ones.

Also, I highly recommend using the /dev/disk/by-id paths because it makes it easier to positively identify the physical devices in the event of need for replacement. ZFS appears to be immune to the sort of race-condition-induced device renaming once the pool is created, but it's still a good idea.

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