Hi,
I've got a zfs pool that works fine in normal use on my debian system and
remains after a reboot.
When I reboot into recovery mode, I have to reimport the pool manually
using
zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id <name of pool>
I export before I reboot, but when I reboot into the full version of Debian
10, the pool isn't there. I can reimport it using the zpool import command,
but I have to do that every time unless I reset the cache using;
zpool set cachefile=none tank
zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache tank
which I found as the zfs-import-cache.service had failed.
My pool isn't particularly complicated;
root@hawaiian:~# zpool status
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
wwn-0x50000f000b074105 ONLINE 0 0 0
wwn-0x50024e9001a4ea77 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
What I want to do is this;
- Reboot in single user mode
- import pool.
- cp -a /var to /tank/var
- Set the mount point on /tank/var to /var
- Remove /var entry from /etc/fstab
- Export the pool
- Reboot
And then I should have a ZFS var for VMs and Docker containers when the
main OS imports ZFS for /var.
I tried this with a VM and it worked.
Thanks
James
