[OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?

[Reginald Beardsley]

--- On Tue, 3/20/12, Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> From: Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to /etc on a pool from another system?
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 9:31 AM
> beadm is missing a qualifier on mount
> to specify the pool name under 
> which the named BE is located, so it mounts the first BE it
> finds with 
> the name you specify.  Since you had the same BE name
> present in your 
> existing root pool, that gets in the way.  Your
> workaround removed the 
> conflict and that's why it worked.
> 
> Dave


That's what I concluded, but glad to have the confirmation.

Just wish there was a way to rename an unmounted pool so I could make it rpool again.

At the moment it's not bootable, though I think I understand how to fix that.  Since it's just a test image I doesn't matter if I fail or trash it so I plan to try.

Ironically, the config file I was after was of no use.  But I learned quite a bit about beadm & zfs, so it was well worth while.  At least if I can remember it all when I need it next.

I'd rolled up facilities to provide the function of beadm on my 3/60 & 1+, but not as elegant.  On the 3/60 I used the diag switch to select the active be and had miniroot installed in that. Full system be was lots more work to setup.

Have Fun!
Reg