Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

Gareth Howell writes: I rebooted in to recovery mode and swapped the pools as suggested. The system now boots using the new ones pool but it fails to start the local file system service and all those that rely on it. The cause is some cruft in the /zones folder that prevents

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

On 3 Feb 2018, at 17:46, Chris Ferebee wrote: Am 02.02.2018 um 20:26 schrieb Volker A. Brandt (Volker A. Brandt) : Gareth Howell writes: I rebooted in to recovery mode and swapped the pools as suggested. The system now boots using the new ones pool but it fails to start the

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

Chris Ferebee writes: > As I understand it, I can take a recursive snapshot of the zones pool, > send/receive it to the newzones pool, then perhaps take another snapshot and > incrementally send the updates, all during normal operation. Then finally > reboot to recovery and swap the pools as

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

> Am 02.02.2018 um 20:26 schrieb Volker A. Brandt (Volker A. Brandt) > : > > Gareth Howell writes: >> I rebooted in to recovery mode and swapped the pools as suggested. The >> system now boots using the new ones pool but it fails to start the local >> file system service and all

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

Gareth Howell writes: > I rebooted in to recovery mode and swapped the pools as suggested. The > system now boots using the new ones pool but it fails to start the local > file system service and all those that rely on it. > The cause is some cruft in the /zones folder that prevents /zones

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

Quick update on this. I rebooted in to recovery mode and swapped the pools as suggested. The system now boots using the new ones pool but it fails to start the local file system service and all those that rely on it. The cause is some cruft in the /zones folder that prevents /zones mounting.

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

On 31 January 2018 at 10:49, H William Welliver III wrote: > I did this a few months ago and I seem to recall the trick being to reboot > into recovery mode so that the pools aren’t imported. You have to do all the > work without mounting the zones pool. If somehow it gets

Re: [smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

Hi Gareth, I did this a few months ago and I seem to recall the trick being to reboot into recovery mode so that the pools aren’t imported. You have to do all the work without mounting the zones pool. If somehow it gets mounted you’re out of luck and will have to reboot try again. I’m pretty

[smartos-discuss] Migrating to a new root pool

Hi I’m trying to migrate my home server to a new pool - the server was originally created with a mirror and I want to move to raidz1. I created the new pool as ‘tempzone’ and then used zfs send/recv to copy all the data from ‘zones’ to ‘tempzone’. I then thought I could simply stop all