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.