On 12/13/12, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Noel <david.i.noel@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general