On Mon, February 2, 2009 06:37, Sergey wrote: > Hello all! > Coulld you please help me to import ZFS pool and filesystem from parallel > installation? > Introduction: > I have 2 installation ot the Solaris 10u6 x86 on slice 0 and zpool rpool > and the Solaris Express x86 on slice 1 and zpool npool at same PC. How to > mount filesystem of the parallel installation? I try to use > > # zpool import -a > > > foreign pool import successfully, but filesystems mount automatically to > root of the filesystem tree. Because the zpools contain more equal zfs > structures the mounting /, /usr, /var and other filesystems on same > mountpoints of the online system take some errors and make system > unbootable. After removing foreign zpool by export the system boot > properly. This task with traditional filesystem, such as UFS is very easy > - we mount foreign root at our choosen folder, them mount other filesystem > to folders on mounting foreign root. But how to do it with ZFS?
The altroot property will do essentially this. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
