creating a bootable ZFS image

[Fabian Keil]

John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:

> What I am doing instead is creating the pool with -o failmode=continue,
> installing, unmounting everything, then forcibly detaching the md
> device. This gives me an image I can use, and it boots and runs fine.
> Unfortunately, that leaves me with a defunct pool on the build host
> until I reboot it. Anything I try to do to the pool (destroy, offline,
> export, etc) returns "cannot open 'zfsroot': pool I/O is currently
> suspended." (With the default failmode=wait, it's even worse since any
> command that tries to touch the pool never returns.) The pool state is
> "UNAVAIL" and the device state is "REMOVED". Once the build host is
> rebooted the device state changes to UNAVAIL and zpool destroy works as
> expected.

Did you try "zpool clear [-F] $pool" after reattaching the md?

It often works for me in situations where other zpool subcommands
just hang like you described above.

Fabian
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