Hi Lin, A few moments after replying to your post, I had an idea. I had tweaked with almost every part of the script but I couldn't figure out what the difference was between the script and the manual execution.
The difference is (as I found later) that when I created the ZFS root fs by hand, I was always zealous enough to "zpool export" my pool before rebooting. And this is the cause for the panic I am getting! I tried booting to the UFS root fs and did a zpool import, followed by another reboot, and it worked... Now that I know *what*, could you perhaps explain to my *why*? I understood zpool import and export operations much as mount and unmount, like maybe some checks on the integrity of the pool and updates to some structure on the OS to maintain the imported/exported state of that pool. But now I suspect this state information is in fact maintained in the pool itself. Does this make sense? In that case, may I suggest that you add a note to the manual (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/) stating that the pool should not be exported prior to booting off it? Thanks for your help! -- Doug This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
