https://redmine.pfsense.org/https://redmine.pfsense.org/favicon.ico?16780521162023-03-07T19:44:49ZpfSense bugtrackerpfSense Plus - Regression #14080: Installer fails to install to a geom mirrorhttps://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14080?journal_id=660542023-03-07T19:44:49ZJim Pingle
<ul></ul><p>You can get past that point by manually setting the UFS slice on the mirror to mount at <code>/</code> though it still fails eventually with different errors.</p>
<p>I'm not sure we should do anything for this, however, when ZFS mirrors are available and do work.</p> pfSense Plus - Regression #14080: Installer fails to install to a geom mirrorhttps://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14080?journal_id=660552023-03-07T23:02:36ZReid Linnemann
<ul></ul><p>Do we want to cut the cord on UFS and just be done with it?</p> pfSense Plus - Regression #14080: Installer fails to install to a geom mirrorhttps://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14080?journal_id=660592023-03-08T07:54:01ZJim Pingle
<ul><li><strong>Priority</strong> changed from <i>Normal</i> to <i>Very Low</i></li></ul><p>Reid Linnemann wrote in <a href="#note-2">#note-2</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Do we want to cut the cord on UFS and just be done with it?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>UFS is OK and not in question here, the problem is gmirror. If a user thinks they need gmirror for some reason or another they would have to install an older version and upgrade. They already haven't been able to create a new gmirror since 2.3 or earlier, reinstalling on gmirror just happened to work in the last iteration of the installer but doesn't any longer.</p>
<p>I was able to get this to work today by deleting and re-creating the UFS partition:</p>
<pre>
* Highlight the UFS partition
* Choose **Delete**
* Choose **Create**
* Arrow down to the mountpoint field
* Set the mountpoint to ``/``
* Press ``Tab``
* Choose **OK**
* Choose **Finish**
* Choose **Commit**
</pre>
<p>It also works if you delete the BSD parent (contains both the UFS and swap partitions) and then manually make a new "freebsd" type partition and then inside that, a new "freebsd-ufs" mounted at / plus a "freebsd-swap" partition.</p>
<p>"Auto" doesn't work, nor does installing on top of the old partitions, but the above workaround may be sufficient for anyone still needing to use gmirror in this day and age.</p>
<p>For most people needing a mirror, ZFS is the way to go at this point.</p>
<p>If it's easy to fix 'auto' in the installer we could maybe do that, but I don't see a point to putting in a lot of work here for gmirror.</p> pfSense Plus - Regression #14080: Installer fails to install to a geom mirrorhttps://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14080?journal_id=661192023-03-11T21:25:20ZKris Phillips
<ul></ul><p>Typically right now we also have issues with the installer converting from gmirror to ZFS. Haven't tested since 22.05, but we usually have people run "gmirror destroy -f pfSenseMirror" from recovery shell if a ZFS mirror cannot be created.</p>