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 mounting.
>>> 
>>> Strangely enough, I did something quite similar last weekend.  I moved
>>> the zones pool from one disk to another using zfs send/receive.  Every-
>>> thing was copied *except* the mointpoint of the zones pool itself.
>>> 
>>> Once I found out it was set to "none", I set it to "/zones", and all
>>> was fine.
>> 
OK, I got to the bottom of the problem. It was caused by the old pool still 
being connected.

When I powered on, it seems that Smartos mounts the pools in alphabetical 
order. Thus the datasets in ‘oldzones’ mounted before ‘zones’ got a chance to 
nab the various mount points on /zones.

Rather than go through and change all the mountpoints on the ‘oldzones’ pool, I 
simply pulled the disk before powering on. All running OK now and I can repeat 
the process on the main server (this was a test run using the backup server).

Gareth

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