[OpenIndiana-discuss] zone detach / tar archive / attach

[Jonathan Adams]

I'm assuming that the zone on the originator computer is not ZFS, and that
is why you are using tar.

root at salmon190-90:~# zfs list -r /zones
NAME                                       USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool1/export/zones                       7.84G   207G    35K  /zones
rpool1/export/zones/cupszone              1.20G   207G    33K
/zones/cupszone
rpool1/export/zones/cupszone/ROOT         1.20G   207G    31K  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/cupszone/ROOT/zbe     2.96M   207G   717M  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/cupszone/ROOT/zbe-1   1.20G   207G  1.01G  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/gitzone                851M   207G    33K
/zones/gitzone
rpool1/export/zones/gitzone/ROOT           851M   207G    31K  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/gitzone/ROOT/zbe       851M   207G   851M  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/sambazone             5.80G   207G    35K
/zones/sambazone
rpool1/export/zones/sambazone/ROOT        1.63G   207G    31K  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/sambazone/ROOT/zbe      35K   207G   601M  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/sambazone/ROOT/zbe-1  3.10M   207G  1.06G  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/sambazone/ROOT/zbe-2  1.63G   207G  1.16G  legacy
rpool1/export/zones/sambazone/profiles    4.17G   207G  1.69G
/zones/sambazone/profiles

what does your "zfs list" look like?

You may find it easier to create a zone on the new server, and then untar
the specific files into it.

Jon


On 4 July 2013 03:38, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doing some tests, wanted to see if I could attach a zone from a tar
> archive. Created a /zones/postgresql zfs and tar xf into that zfs
> filesystem.
>
> After doing a zonecfg, and a create -a /zones/postgresql
> # zoneadm -z postgresql attach -u
> Log File: /var/tmp/postgresql.attach_log..2aypj
> ERROR: Failed to locate any dataset mounted at /zones/postgresql/root.
> Attach requires a mounted dataset.
>                     Result: Attach Failed.
>
> Or if I try force:
>
> # zoneadm -z postgresql attach -F
> # zoneadm -z postgresql boot
> zone 'postgresql': ERROR: no active dataset.
> zone 'postgresql':
> zoneadm: zone 'postgresql': call to zoneadmd failed
>
>
> Any idea what is going on?
>
> Francois
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