[zfs-discuss] First zone creation - getting ZFS error

Ian Collins
Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:36:49 -0000

On 12/ 9/11 11:37 AM, Betsy Schwartz wrote:

  On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com>
wrote:
>> On 12/ 7/11 05:12 AM, Mark Creamer wrote:
>>
>>> Since the zfs dataset datastore/zones is created, I don''t
understand what the error is trying to get me to do. Do I have to do:
>>>
>>> zfs create datastore/zones/zonemaster
>>>
>>> before I can create a zone in that path? That''s not in the
documentation, so I didn''t want to do anything until someone can point
out my error for me. Thanks for your help!
>>>
>> You shouldn''t have to, but it won''t do any harm.
>>
>> If you don''t get any further, try zones-discuss.
> I would also try it without the /zones mountpoint. Putting the zone root
dir on an alternate mountpoint caused problems for us. Try creating
/datastore/zones for a zone root home, or just make the zones in  /datastore
>
> Solaris seems to get very easily confused when zone root is anything out of
the ordinary ( and it really bites you at patch time!)
>
It shouldn''t.

On all my systems, I have:

NAME             USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool/zoneRoot  11.6G   214G    40K  /zoneRoot

--
Ian.