Great...will using lofiadm still cause this issue? either by using mkfile or
by using dd makeing a sparse file? Thanks for the heads up!

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Cindy Swearingen
<cindy.swearin...@sun.com>wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> You are running into this bug:
>
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6929751
>
> Currently, building a pool from files is not fully supported.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cindy
>
> On 03/05/10 16:15, Gregory Durham wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I am using Opensolaris 2009.06 snv_129
>> I have a quick question. I have created a zpool on a sparse file, for
>> instance:
>>
>> zpool create stage c10d0s0
>> mount it to /media/stage
>> mkfile -n 500GB /media/stage/disks/disk.img
>> zpool create zfsStage /media/stage/disks/disk.img
>> I want to be able to take this file and back it up to tape. However, that
>> is fine but if I reboot I see:
>>
>> pool: zfsStage
>>  state: UNAVAIL
>> status: One or more devices could not be opened.  There are insufficient
>>        replicas for the pool to continue functioning.
>> action: Attach the missing device and online it using 'zpool online'.
>>   see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-3C
>>  scrub: none requested
>> config:
>>
>>        NAME                               STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>>        zfsStage                           UNAVAIL      0     0     0
>>  insufficient replicas
>>          /media/zfsStage/disks/disk1.img  UNAVAIL      0     0     0
>>  cannot open
>>
>> I then tried:
>> $zpool online zfsStage /media/zfsStage/disks
>>     cannot open 'zfsStage': pool is unavailable
>> $ zpool online zfsStage /media/zfsStage/disks/disk1.img
>>     cannot open 'zfsStage': pool is unavailable
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong? When I restore from tape how would I mount
>> this if this sort of thing is coming up? Hopefully someone can help me out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>
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