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
Ramin I don''t know but...... Is the error not from mount and it''s /export/home that can''t be created? "mount ''/export/home'': failed to create mountpoint." Have you tried mounting ''rpool/export'' somewhere else, ike .mnt? Ramin Moazeni 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 www.eagle.co.nz This email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Ramin Moazeni <Ramin.Moazeni at 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 at 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 brent at servuhome.net