[zfs-discuss] zpool import of bootable root pool in 2008.11 - it does not work

Hello, I noted this problem on build 98 of 2008.11 and have recently verified it exists in the production release as well. I have installed 2008.11 as a guest under Xen. If you make an exact block-level copy of the image and attach the copy as a disk on the original OS, zpool import does not

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import of bootable root pool renders it unbootable

Thanks for all of your input. I intalled 2008.11 build 98 as an HVM guest under Xen: If you make a block-level copy of the boot pool and attach it as a disk on the original VM, "zpool import" does not recognize it. If you attach a non-root pool as a disk, "zpool import" does recognize it. S

[zfs-discuss] zpool import of bootable root pool renders it unbootable

I am running OpenSolaris 2008.05 as a PV guest under Xen. If you import the bootable root pool of a VM into another Solaris VM, the root pool is no longer bootable. It is related to the device associated to the pool, which is originally c4d0s0, but on import (-f) becomes c0d2s0 in this case.

[zfs-discuss] 2008.05 zpool create altroot problem

I am using OpenSolaris 2008.05. If I do "zpool create -R /altroot mypool c0d3" then "zfs get mountpoint mypool" shows the value as "/altroot" rather then /altroot/mypool". If you then do "zpool export mypool" followed by "zpool import mypool", you get: cannot mount 'mypool': No such file or di