On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Cindy Swearingen <cindy.swearin...@oracle.com> wrote: > Renaming the root pool is not recommended. I have some details on what > actually breaks, but I can't find it now.
Really? I asked about using a new pool for the rpool, and there were some comments that it works fine. In fact, you'd suggested using beadm to move the BE to the new pool. On x86, grub looks at the findroot command, which checks /rpool/boot/grub/bootsign/ (See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/ggvms?a=view) The zpool should have the bootfs property set (although I've had it work without this set). (See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/ggqhp?l=en&a=view) To answer Richard's question, if you have to rename a pool during import due to a conflict, the only way to change it back is to re-import it with the original name. You'll have to either export the conflicting pool, or (if it's rpool) boot off of a LiveCD which doesn't use an rpool to do the rename. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
