possible zfs bug? lost all pools

[Greg Byshenk]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:56:17AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
 
> after trying to mount my zfs pools in single user mode I got the following 
> message for each:
> 
> May 18 09:09:36 gw kernel: ZFS: WARNING: pool 'cache1' could not be loaded as 
> it was last accessed by another system (host: gw.bb1.matik.com.br hostid: 
> 0xbefb4a0f).  See: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-EY
> 
> any zpool cmd returned nothing else as not existing zfs, seems the zfs info on 
> disks was gone
> 
> to double-check I recreated them, rebooted in single user mode and repeated 
> the story, same thing, trying to /etc/rc.d/zfs start returnes the above msg 
> and pools are gone ...
> 
> I guess this is kind of wrong 


I think that the problem is related to the absence of a hostid when in
single-user.  Try running '/etc/rc.d/hostid start' before mouning.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/075001.html


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