On 12/13/2012 01:40 PM, David Noel wrote:
> On 12/13/12, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> David Noel <david.i.noel@gmail.com> writes:
>>> /zdb is a zfs volume I've created for cvs and postgres.
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>> zfs eh? What happens if you point initdb at a non-zfs volume?
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>> (I"m wondering if zfs has issues with the O_DIRECT flag that we'll
>> probably try to use with pg_xlog files.)
>
> I /boot off of a UFS volume so I created a directory there, chown and
> chmod'ed it, then ran initdb again. Same error, unfortunately.
Well this has definitely moved up a support level and past anything I
know about.
For the record what version of FreeBSD are you running in case someone
is searching the archives?
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