James Allsopp wrote: > 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,
That's expected. zpool export prepares the zpool for use on a different system. It is not part of the usual shutdown procedure. > 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. Don't export the pool. Unmount all ZFS mounts before or as part of shutdown.. -dsr- > > I tried this with a VM and it worked. > Thanks > James -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. there is no justice, there is just us.
