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On Fri 07 Sep 2007 at 11:53AM, Ril wrote:
> I posted this query to the ZFS discussion forum, but got no replies --
> perhaps this is more of question about zones than zfs:
>
> I followed the procedure to add a ZFS dataset to a non-global, whole-root
> zone as a delegated dataset as described in the ZFS Admin Guide, page 129.
> What is the proper way to remove it? I tried the following:
> >From the global zone:
> 1) halt the zone
> 2) use zonecfg to remove the dataset
> 3) boot the zone
> When I logged back into the zone, the mount point was still present, but now
> under /, but the files were gone, and they weren't present in the pool on the
> global zone, either.
>
> Is this the correct procedure to remove a ZFS file system from a non-global
> zone? Is there anyway to do this without losing the data in the file system?
I don't think your data is actually gone. When zfs filesystems get
handed out to non-global zones, a special "bit" is set on the
filesystem, in the form of a zfs property called "zoned". Here
is what the man page says:
After a dataset is delegated to a non-global zone, the
"zoned" property is automatically set. A zoned file system
cannot be mounted in the global zone, since the zone
administrator might have to set the mount point to an unac-
ceptable value.
The global administrator can forcibly clear the "zoned" pro-
perty, though this should be done with extreme care. The
global administrator should verify that all the mount points
are acceptable before clearing the property.
I hope that helps,
-dp
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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp@xxxxxxxxxxx - blogs.sun.com/dp
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