pfSense 2.7.2 won't load the other zpool.

scilek

I have been tinkering with ZFS on pfSense for a new project, and I realised that, although a second pool will be mounted successfully when you create it, pfSense will fail to mount it at reboot.

I tried adding zfs_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.local but it did not work.

What can be done to make it work?

stephenw10

What exactly are you trying to do here?

You have added a second ZFS pool and need to have that mounted at boot? What are you using that for?

scilek

@stephenw10 said in pfSense 2.7.2 won't load the other zpool.:

What exactly are you trying to do here?

You have added a second ZFS pool and need to have that mounted at boot?

Right.

What are you using that for?

It will store some crucial log data.

Any suggestions?

stephenw10

As long as the pool was imported I'd expect it to be present after boot.

It should be in the zpool.cache file try checking: zdb -CU /boot/zfs/zpool.cache

scilek

@stephenw10
It is zpool.cache file, but it is not loaded, that is until I issue:

service zfs start

Something does not make sense here. Appending zfs_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf.local does not help either.

Something is not right.

stephenw10

pfSense does not use the BSD rc system so adding it there does nothing.

Does it load if you run that manually after boot?

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/boot-commands.html

scilek

@stephenw10

Does it load if you run that manually after boot?

Yes.

FYI, the shellcmd option works, earlyshellcmd does not.

scilek

Any idea, anyone?

Is this a bug or what?

stephenw10

The fact it cannot be run as an early shellcmd? That's not necessarily a bug.

scilek

@stephenw10
No, the fact that it won't load automatically despite the fact that it is included in zfs.cache...

stephenw10

Replicated that. Digging..

scilek

@stephenw10
Any developments? Can you confirm this as a bug?

stephenw10

Well, I can confirm it does happen but I would classify it as a missing feature since pfSense is not expected to see multiple ZFS pools.

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15114

One of our devs is looking at it.

scilek

@stephenw10
Thank you very much.

Is there another, safer and more elegant way of loading the second pool other than the shellcmd option?

stephenw10

None that I'm aware of currently.