On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:50:51AM -0400, Dave Cundiff wrote: > Hello, > > I'm seeing a strange problem trying to use zfs promote. > > [root@san2]# zfs snapshot san/sr@snap > [root@san2]# zfs clone san/sr@snap san/sr5 > [root@san2]# zfs promote san/sr5 > cannot promote 'san/sr5': dataset is busy > > Being a freshly created dataset I'm not sure how it would be busy. Are > there any caveats to using zfs promote on zvols? The snapshots are of > ext3 formatted zvols. I don't really need to promote them but wanted > to in case I needed to destroy the source for some reason.
Which FreeBSD version is this? I just tried it on 9-CURRENT with ZFSv28 and it works just fine, even if I've file systems mounted on top of those ZVOLs. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com
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