[install-discuss] live upgrade & zones requirements/help?

[James Carlson]

Joseph Mocker writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> >
> >> Making boot environment <sol-nv-92> bootable.
> >> ERROR: unable to mount zones:
> >> zoneadm: zone 'watt': "/usr/lib/fs/lofs/mount
> >> /.alt.tmp.b-nMf.mnt/storage/users/watt/app
> >> /.alt.tmp.b-nMf.mnt/zone/watt/lu/a/app" failed with exit code 33
> >>     
> >
> > That looks like an internal error (_possibly_ related to "add fs"
> > entries that lucreate is having trouble digesting).  It ought to work;
> > report it as a bug
> The zone has several loopback filesystems in it.

That sounds familiar.  :-<

> I created a bug 6726451 for this.
> 
> I suppose as a workaround I could probably just use NFS mounts. I'll 
> give that a shot.

Careful: using an NFS client on the same box as the corresponding NFS
server (e.g., having a non-global zone as a client of the global zone)
is known to be toxic.

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