[OpenIndiana-discuss] Deleting zpool.cache on OI

[Steve Gonczi]

Yes, I suggest you follow the guidance given by Jim. 
Once you have the system up and running, you may want to try 
to import the pool using an explicit zpool import command. 

Esp. older versions of zfs had a problem when large files were deleted. 
The fs mount path tries to perform any interrupted delete-s that have been 
started before the pool is mounted. Did you by any chance delete 
some large files? 

The pool may come up eventually, but it may take a long time. 
(possibly days). 

Once you decouple the startup from the pool mount, you can either just 
destroy the problem pool, or let it finish what it is doing in the background. 

Steve 


----- Original Message -----
Yes, Steve, exactly. I'd like to save the rest of my installation, but 
I have a pool that when mounted on any system, prevents a reboot when 
mounted.