On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Ramin Moazeni <ramin.moaz...@sun.com> wrote: > Hello > > A customer recently had a power outage. Prior to the outage, they did a > graceful shutdown of their system. > On power-up, the system is not coming up due to zfs errors as follows: > cannot mount 'rpool/export': Number of symbolic links encountered during > path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS > mount '/export/home': failed to create mountpoint. > > The possible cause of this might be that a symlink is created pointing to > itself since the customer stated > that they created lots of symlink to get their env ready. However, since > /export is not getting mounted, they > can not go back and delete/fix the symlinks. > > Can someone suggest a way to fix this issue? > > Thanks > Ramin Moazeni > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
I see these very frequently on my systems, regardless of a clean shutdown or not, 1/3 of the time filesystems cannot mount. What I do, is boot into single user mode, make sure the filesystem in question is NOT mounted, and just delete the directory that its trying to mount into. -- Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
