Hi, On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:35 -0800, Bill Shannon wrote: > I never got an answer to this. Why do I get "dataset is busy" when trying > to snapshot my filesystem? > > I did "svcadm clear" on the ones in maintenance mode, but it didn't work. > > The log files show: > > > > cannot create snapshot 'rpool/ROOT/opensolaris at > > zfs-auto-snap:daily-2009-01-07-15 > > :13': dataset is busy I see the same error on my notebook every now and then. It mostly happens when I either cleaned up (i.e. rm'd) a lot or when I boot the notebook. Someone suggested it might be that the ZIL has entries not yet commited to disk. At least for my it works fine a minute later.
Bernd
