I’m pretty sure this is being caused by some form of corruption in one or more 
of: the structure of the zones pool; ditto one of its datasets’ mountpoints; or 
a corrupt file.

The main suspects are the mountpojnts for config, opt, var or usbkey (my money 
is on config or var); or the contents of config or var.

Are there any tools that can be used to check the structure and sanity of a 
smartos configured zones pool? Something that can be run in recovery mode with 
the zones pool mounted on an alternate mount point. To look at usbkey, config 
or var requires manually changing the mountpoints as they are “legacy” mounts 
(though I don’t see entries in /etc/vfstab)

Gareth

> On 7 Feb 2018, at 15:00, Gareth Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is really a continuation of my previous post on migrating to a new pool 
> configuration, but it deserves a new thread.
> 
> After the “send/recv, destroy/create, swap names” dance, I have a single disk 
> `zones` pool with all the data on it and a new raidz1 pool called `zznew` 
> that will become the new `zones` after I have synced it. However, something 
> odd has happened somewhere.
> 
> Prior to creating `zznew` I just had the single disk `zones` pool. When I 
> booted, the kernel panicked and the system reset. After examining the pool in 
> recovery mode, all seemed well but I couldn’t get anywhere because I can only 
> use the console and the error messages zoom past too fast to read. (It did 
> try to save a dump log but that failed as well).
> 
> To make progress, I removed the single disk pool and did a clean install 
> using a newly created raidz1 pool. I could then import the bad pool, but 
> again I could see no problems.
> 
> I was moving towards having to do a reverse copy from the imported zone to 
> the running zone but before I did so, I tried swapping the pool names. i.e. a 
> single disk `zones` and a “runnable” raidz1 `zznew` pool. The system booted 
> to my surprise.
> 
> Looking at the mount points etc showed the following
> 
> root@deneb ~ $ zfs list
> NAME                                               USED  AVAIL  REFER  
> MOUNTPOINT
> zones                                             2.67T   863G   588K  /zones
> zones/archive                                      152K   863G    88K  none
> …
> zones/config                                       468K   863G   196K  legacy
> zones/cores                                        250M   863G    88K  none
> …
> zones/cores/global                                 152K  10.0G    88K  
> /zones/global/cores
> …
> zones/dump                                         260K   863G   140K  -
> …
> zones/opt                                         2.50T   863G  1.20G  legacy
> …
> zones/swap                                        33.2G   896G   246M  -
> zones/usbkey                                       196K   863G   132K  legacy
> zones/var                                         1.05G   863G  1.03G  legacy
> zznew                                             37.6G  3.47T  1018K  /zznew
> zznew/archive                                      117K  3.47T   117K  
> /zznew/archive
> zznew/config                                       139K  3.47T   139K  legacy
> zznew/cores                                        234K  3.47T   117K  none
> zznew/cores/global                                 117K  10.0G   117K  
> /zznew/global/cores
> zznew/dump                                        1.84G  3.47T  1.84G  -
> zznew/opt                                         2.88G  3.47T  2.88G  legacy
> zznew/swap                                        32.9G  3.50T  74.6K  -
> zznew/usbkey                                       261K  3.47T   261K  legacy
> zznew/var                                         3.91M  3.47T  3.91M  
> /zznew/var
> 
> root@deneb ~ $ zfs mount
> zones                           /zones
> …
> zznew                           /zznew
> zznew/archive                   /zznew/archive
> zznew/cores/global              /zznew/global/cores
> zznew/var                       /zznew/var
> zznew/config                    /etc/zones
> zznew/opt                       /opt
> zznew/usbkey                    /usbkey
> 
> I deleted some irrelevant bits and highlighted the problems. The system is 
> mounting some datasets from zznew as if they are from zones.
> 
> Any ideas on how to correct this so that /etc/zones, /opt and /usbkey mount 
> from zones rather than zznew?
> 
> Gareth

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