Re: [zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-02-18 Thread Frank Cusack
Turns out setting altroot is the way to do this. Doesn't work for the root pool. Once you get to the root filesystem, mounted on /, zfs attempts to mount it. Even though you are using an altroot, / now maps to /altroot, which is of course already occupied. :( -frank

Re: [zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Cusack
Turns out setting altroot is the way to do this. Thanks to David Dyer-Bennet for the solution, given in another thread. -frank ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-02-13 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 30, 2009 1:09:49 PM -0500 Mark J Musante mmusante at east.sun.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote: so, is there a way to tell zfs not to perform the mounts for data2? or another way i can replicate the pool on the same host, without exporting the original pool?

Re: [zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-01-31 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 30, 2009 1:09:49 PM -0500 Mark J Musante mmusa...@east.sun.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote: so, is there a way to tell zfs not to perform the mounts for data2? or another way i can replicate the pool on the same host, without exporting the original pool? There

Re: [zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-01-31 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 30, 2009 9:58:56 AM -0800 Frank Cusack fcus...@fcusack.com wrote: somewhat related question, any way to tell zfs it's ok to shadow a directory? i would like to create datasets for /usr/local dirs in each sparse zone, however because /usr is inherited and the global zone's

[zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-01-30 Thread Frank Cusack
i made a mistake and created my zpool on a partition (c2t0d0p0). i can't attach another identical whole drive (c3t0d0) to this pool, i get an error that the new drive is too small (i'd have thought it would be bigger!) the mount point of the top dataset is 'none', and various datasets in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] set mountpoint but don't mount?

2009-01-30 Thread Mark J Musante
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote: so, is there a way to tell zfs not to perform the mounts for data2? or another way i can replicate the pool on the same host, without exporting the original pool? There is not a way to do that currently, but I know it's coming down the road.