I would like to note that I have a similar issue which has irritated me for 
some time.  My experience trying to clean up has been the same.  Nothing seems 
to work.

It would be *really* nice if someone documented in the wiki  where ZFS stores 
such state information and how to edit it.

Reg

--- On Sat, 6/1/13, Michelle Knight <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Michelle Knight <[email protected]>
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Destroying unavailable ZFS dataset
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 10:06 AM
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm having problems; an old system drive seems to have a
> memory of a
> dataset that is long gone. Obviously this information has
> survived
> partition editing, but it is driving me nuts.
> 
> I can't zfs destroy it by ID because it isn't available. I
> also can't
> mount it even using -f and the ID, because none of the
> volumes exist any
> more.
> 
> How do I tell the system to forget about this dataset
> please?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Michelle.
> 
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