On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:05:31AM -0800, Christopher Mera wrote: > I recently read up on Scott Dickson's blog with his solution for > jumpstart/flashless cloning of ZFS root filesystem boxes. I have to say > that it initially looks to work out cleanly, but of course there are > kinks to be worked out that deal with auto mounting filesystems mostly. > > The issue that I'm having is that a few days after these cloned systems > are brought up and reconfigured they are crashing and svc.configd > refuses to start.
When you snapshot a ZFS filesystem you get just that -- a snapshot at the filesystem level. That does not mean you get a snapshot at the _application_ level. Now, svc.configd is a daemon that keeps a SQLite2 database. If you snapshot the filesystem in the middle of a SQLite2 transaction you won't get the behavior that you want. In other words: quiesce your system before you snapshot its root filesystem for the purpose of replicating that root on other systems. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
