Dan McDonald wrote: > I created a filesystem dedicated to /var/log so I could keep compression on > the logs. Unfortunately, this caused problems at boot time because my log > ZFS dataset couldn't be mounted because /var/log already contained bits. > Some of that, to be fair, could be fixed by having some SMF services > explicitly depend on svc:/system/filesystem/local:default that don't already, > but I get the feeling there's more to it than that. > > Any recent insights into /var/log being its own filesystem? > > I don't know if the order has changed with ZFS boot, but I had found a way to put lofi mounts of ISO files in the vfstab, and then had a similar problem when I then moved those ISO's so that they lived on a ZFS filesystem - the /etc/vfstab was processed much earlier than the ZFS ones.
So one solution you might try (It worked for me) would be to set the zfs mount point to legacy, and then create an entry in /etc/vfstab so that it gets mounted earlier in the boot process. -Kyle > Thanks! > Dan > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
