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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2011 16:21:28 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dave Cundiff <syshackmin@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS promote failure
Message-ID:  <20110525142128.GH1877@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=QpSt3b0h8OTyni%2B3JFpRC=7g8ZQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <BANLkTi=QpSt3b0h8OTyni%2B3JFpRC=7g8ZQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:50:51AM -0400, Dave Cundiff wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I'm seeing a strange problem trying to use zfs promote.
>=20
> [root@san2]# zfs snapshot san/sr@snap
> [root@san2]# zfs clone san/sr@snap san/sr5
> [root@san2]# zfs promote san/sr5
> cannot promote 'san/sr5': dataset is busy
>=20
> Being a freshly created dataset I'm not sure how it would be busy. Are
> there any caveats to using zfs promote on zvols? The snapshots are of
> ext3 formatted zvols. I don't really need to promote them but wanted
> to in case I needed to destroy the source for some reason.

Which FreeBSD version is this? I just tried it on 9-CURRENT with ZFSv28
and it works just fine, even if I've file systems mounted on top of
those ZVOLs.

--=20
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