You might want to take this issue over to
caiman-disc...@opensolaris.org, because this is more of an
installation/management issue than a zfs issue. Other than providing a
mechanism for updating the zpool.cache file, the actions listed below
are not directly related to zfs.
I believe that the Caiman team is looking at implementing a mass
provisioning and disaster recovery mechanism (functionally similar to
flash archives in the legacy Solaris installer). Pool splitting could
be another tool in their toolbox for accomplishing that goal.
Lori
On 03/31/10 06:41 PM, Damon Atkins wrote:
I assume the swap, dumpadm, grub is because the pool has a different name now,
but is it still a problem if you take it to a *different system* boot off a CD
change it back to rpool. (which is most likley unsupported, ie no help to get
it working)
Over 10 years ago (way before flash archive existed) I developed a script,
used after spliting a mirror, which would remove most of the device tree,
cleaned up path_to_inst etc so it look like the OS was just installed and about
to do the reboot without the install CD. (every thing was still in there expect
for hardware specific stuff, I no longer have the script and most likey would
not do it again because its not a supported install method)
I still had to boot from CD on the new system and create the dev tree before
booting off the disk for the first time, and then fix vfstab (but the fix
vfstab should be gone with zfs rpool)
It would be nice for Oracle/Sun to produce a separate script which reset
system/devices back to a install like begining so if you move a OS disk with
current password file and software from one system to another, and have it
rebuild the device tree on the new system.
From member (updated for zfs) something like:
zfs split rpool newrpool
mount newrpool
remove newrpool/dev and newrpool/devices of all non-packages content (ie
dynamically created content)
clean up newrpool/etc/path_to_inst
create /newrool/reconfigure
remove all prevoius snapshots in newrool
update beadm info inside newrpool
ensure grub is installed on the disk
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