all, while experimenting with beadm, I see this behaviour:
$ beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- osol-101 - - 3.37G static 2008-11-07 16:08 osol-102 NR / 18.90G static 2008-11-22 22:01 osol-105 - - 1.31G static 2009-01-15 08:25 osol-96 - - 127.63M static 2008-10-31 23:07 $ pfexec beadm create -e osol-105 osol-105a Unable to create osol-105a. Mount busy. $ pfexec beadm create osol-102 at now $ the way I read the man-page, the first "beadm create" should have worked: beadm create [-a] [-d description] [-e non-activeBeName | beName at snapshot] [-o property=value] ... [-p zpool] beName I then rebooted into -105, and tried again: $ beadm list BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created -- ------ ---------- ----- ------ ------- osol-101 - - 3.37G static 2008-11-07 16:08 osol-102 R - 18.90G static 2008-11-22 22:01 osol-105 N / 1.31G static 2009-01-15 08:25 osol-96 - - 127.63M static 2008-10-31 23:07 $ pfexec beadm create osol-105a $ what am I missing? Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'