Re: initdb error

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David(dot)I(dot)Noel(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb error
Date: 2012-12-13 22:08:30
Message-ID: 50CA51DE.9060700@gmail.com
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On 12/13/2012 01:40 PM, David Noel wrote:
> On 12/13/12, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> David Noel <david(dot)i(dot)noel(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> /zdb is a zfs volume I've created for cvs and postgres.
>>
>> zfs eh? What happens if you point initdb at a non-zfs volume?
>>
>> (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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>

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Adrian Klaver
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