At 02:03 PM 8/8/2011, you wrote:
Folks
My experiments with installing ZFS-FUSE in a Centos 6 system reveal behavior different from that observed in Centos 5.6.
The version of ZFS-FUSE is that provided on the EPEL repository, and was installed on a 32-bit machine. I use it because of its deduplication facility.
In Centos 5.6, the facility worked as advertised.
In Centos 6, however, the system "hung" in initialization upon the first reboot after installing ZFS-FUSE and creating a pool. By "hung", I mean that the cute sliding blue bar that progresses during
You may want to disable the cute sliding blue crap by editing the grub options and remove "rhgb quiet" from it. That's what I do most of the times because I want to see what's going on.
bootstrap got to nearly complete and then stood there for at least 20 minutes. The identical computer, configured without ZFS-FUSE, completed the system initialization within normal time.
Following some clues found by googling the bug, I suspected that AUDITD and ZFS-FUSE had a conflict. After several experiments, I found what appears to work.
REMEDY:
When you install ZFS-FUSE, it will start the zfs-fuse service, and will also automatically issue a "chkconfig zfs-fuse on" command. The remedy is to prevent zfs-fuse from running during initializtion by issuing chkconfig zfs-fuse off and starting the service after the initialization is complete.
Hm, I've just started running a server with SELinux enabled and already learned why it was a good thing to stay away from it until now. I guess that's also where your problems come from: the selinux-policy does not have support for zfs-fuse, or for the way you are using it. you can check audit.log to see if SELinux prevents zfs-fuse from starting up. I may be wrong of course.
Regards, Simon
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I forgot to add... SELINUX is disabled.