This is a follow up to a previous question I had regarding FreeBSD and zfs.
I understand that currently splunk does not support zfs on FreeBSD. Could it be that splunk won't run from within a zfs pool on FBSD because zfs was not introduced into FBSD until FBSD 7x? My thought was that if splunk could run on FBSD without needing compat6x, then it probably wouldn't complain about zfs. For what it's worth, I get the following error when trying to run from within zfs on FBSD 8.1 and compat6x installed...
Could not create a lock in the SPLUNK_DB directory.
Filesystem type is not supported: buf.f_fstypename = zfs
If supporting this filesystem type is important to you, please file an Enhancement Request with Splunk Support with the fs info number listed.
An error occurred: Locking test failed on filesystem in path '/zfsdisk0/opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk' with code '9'.
I should point out that splunk will run on this same machine from within a ufs partition.
I will file an Enhancement Request and I would be willing to help out with any testing needed to get splunk to run on FBSD without relying on the compat6x package.
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