1. Connect USB storage device (a disk) to machine
2. Find USB device through rmformat
3. Try zpool create on that device. It fails with:
can't open "/dev/rdsk/cNt0d0p0", device busy
If your disk was originally formatted with pcfs or ufs, it would be
automounted when connected. If you didn'
Hi,
sorry, I needed to be more clear:
Here's what I did:
1. Connect USB storage device (a disk) to machine
2. Find USB device through rmformat
3. Try zpool create on that device. It fails with:
can't open "/dev/rdsk/cNt0d0p0", device busy
4. svcadm disable rmvolmgr
5. Now zpool create works w
while playing around with ZFS and USB memory sticks or USB harddisks,
rmvolmgr tends to get in the way, which results in a
can't open "/dev/rdsk/cNt0d0p0", device busy
Do you remember exactly what command/operation resulted in this error? It is
something that tries to open device exclusive
Is there a more elegant approach that tells rmvolmgr to leave certain
devices alone on a per disk basis?
I was expecting there to be something in rmmount.conf to allow a specific device
or pattern to be excluded but there appears to be nothing. Maybe this is an RFE?
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Hi,
while playing around with ZFS and USB memory sticks or USB harddisks,
rmvolmgr tends to get in the way, which results in a
can't open "/dev/rdsk/cNt0d0p0", device busy
error.
So far, I've just said svcadm disable -t rmvolmgr, did my thing, then
said svcadm enable rmvolmgr.
Is there a mor
