Thanks! That looks like just the ticket. Regards, John
Sent from my iPad > On Feb 29, 2016, at 12:31 AM, ryan nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > You probably want to remove or rename the file ".system_pool" at the root of > your "old_zones" zpool. > > see: > https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/blob/master/overlay/generic/lib/svc/method/fs-joyent#L83-85 > > >> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:53 PM, John Croix <[email protected]> wrote: >> Apologies in advance for a long e-mail. The problem I ran into requires some >> background to understand it. >> >> I was running out of disk space on "zones" on my server, so I bought some >> new drives, set them up as a 3-disk mirror, installed SMARTOS on them from >> scratch (on a second computer), and migrated VMs from my server to the new >> computer. Everything went off without a hitch. >> >> Next, on my server, I booted into rescue mode and renamed "zones" to >> "old_zones" (zfs import zones old_zones) and shut down. On my second >> computer, I booted into rescue mode and explicitly did a "zfs import zones" >> followed by a "zfs export zones" (not sure if that was required). I moved >> the mirror onto my server, with the old disks still present, booted into >> rescue mode, explicitly imported "zones" from my new mirror and "old_zones" >> from my old disk set. I then rebooted normally, only to discover that all >> VMs were being pulled from "old_zones" and not "zones". >> >> I shut down, disconnected all drives associated with "old_zones" and >> rebooted. The system came up just fine, exactly as expected (though I did >> run into a dump volume size problem that forced me to reset the volume size >> of that ZFS dataset to get SMARTOS to boot). I shut down, reattached >> "old_zones" disks, and the system again booted up with VMs from "old_zones" >> instead of "zones". >> >> I was hoping to keep "old_zones" around and online in case I ran into an >> issue with something that I forgot to copy over (3TB of data was migrated). >> Once I felt good enough about it, I was going to destroy "old_zones" and use >> those disks for online backup storage. However, I can't do that unless I can >> get the system to use "zones" instead of "old_zones" when all disks are >> simultaneously connected. >> >> Does anybody know what's going on and how to accomplish what I'm trying to >> do? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> http://www.listbox.com > > smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
