Zone filesystem create problem
Hello, I've got an issue that hopefully someone can help me with. I have 2 identically configured e250s (both were jumpstarted the same) and I'm trying to create a duplicate zone on both systems. I wrote a config file for zonecfg that adds 3 lofs mounts. On one system if works just fine and zone get configured and installed. However, on the other machine, the zonecfg command runs without error but the zoneadm install fails with the following error:
# zonecfg -z mysql1 -f /var/tmp/mysql1-zone.cfg
# zoneadm -z mysql1 install
Preparing to install zone <mysql1>.
ERROR: Read-only file system: cannot create mount point </zones/mysql1/root/opt/csw/var>
ERROR: Read-only file system: cannot create mount point </zones/mysql1/root/usr/local>
ERROR: cannot setup zone <mysql1> inherited and configured file systems
ERROR: cannot setup zone <mysql1> file systems inherited and configured from the global zone
ERROR: cannot create zone boot environment <mysql1>
zoneadm: zone'mysql1':'/usr/lib/lu/lucreatezone' failed with exit code 74.
The config file is the same on both systems and the loop directories on the global zone are identical.
Here is the config file I'm passing to zonecfg:
# zonecfg -z mysql1 export
create -b
set zonepath=/zones/mysql1
set autoboot=true
add inherit-pkg-dir
set dir=/lib
end
add inherit-pkg-dir
set dir=/platform
end
add inherit-pkg-dir
set dir=/sbin
end
add inherit-pkg-dir
set dir=/usr
end
add inherit-pkg-dir
set dir=/usr/sfw
end
add inherit-pkg-dir
set dir=/opt/csw
end
add fs
set dir=/opt/csw/etc
set special=/zones/local/mysql1/optcswetc
set type=lofs
add options rw
add options nodevices
end
add fs
set dir=/opt/csw/var
set special=/zones/local/mysql1/optcswvar
set type=lofs
add options rw
add options nodevices
end
add fs
set dir=/usr/local
set special=/zones/local/mysql1/usrlocal
set type=lofs
add options rw
add options nodevices
end
add net
set address=192.168.0.70
set physical=hme0
end
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
[2462 byte] By [
unixsa] at [2007-11-26 11:56:49]

# 2
Unfortunately that path doesn't exist prior to the zoneadm -z mysql1 install
command. Mount shows the /zones filesystem to be read/write:
/zonepool on zonepool read/write/setuid/devices/exec/atime/dev=4010007 on Tue Dec 5 10:49:39 2006
/zones on zonepool/zonefs read/write/setuid/devices/exec/atime/dev=401000a on Tue Dec 5 14:53:20 2006
Here's what the mount looks like on the other system:
/zonepool on zonepool read/write/setuid/devices/exec/atime/dev=4010002 on Tue Dec 5 13:44:04 2006
/zones on zonepool/zonefs read/write/setuid/devices/exec/atime/dev=4010004 on Tue Dec 5 13:45:11 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/dev on /zones/mysql1/dev read/write/setuid/devices/zonedevfs/dev=4cc0004 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/lib on /lib read only/setuid/nodevices/nosub/dev=800020 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/opt/csw on /opt/csw read only/setuid/nodevices/nosub/dev=800020 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/opt/csw/etc on /zones/local/mysql1/optcswetc read/write/setuid/nodevices/dev=4010004 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/opt/csw/var on /zones/local/mysql1/optcswvar read/write/setuid/nodevices/dev=4010004 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/platform on /platform read only/setuid/nodevices/nosub/dev=800020 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/sbin on /sbin read only/setuid/nodevices/nosub/dev=800020 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/usr on /usr read only/setuid/nodevices/nosub/dev=800020 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/usr/local on /zones/local/mysql1/usrlocal read/write/setuid/nodevices/dev=4010004 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/usr/sfw on /usr/sfw read only/setuid/nodevices/nosub/dev=800020 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:14 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/proc on proc read/write/setuid/nodevices/zone=mysql1/dev=4980004 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:26 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/system/contract on ctfs read/write/setuid/nodevices/zone=mysql1/dev=4940005 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:26 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/etc/svc/volatile on swap read/write/setuid/nodevices/xattr/zone=mysql1/dev=4a0000d on Tue Dec 5 14:06:26 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/etc/mnttab on mnttab read/write/setuid/nodevices/zone=mysql1/dev=49c0005 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:26 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/dev/fd on fd read/write/setuid/nodevices/zone=mysql1/dev=4bc0005 on Tue Dec 5 14:06:33 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/tmp on swap read/write/setuid/nodevices/xattr/zone=mysql1/dev=4a0000e on Tue Dec 5 14:06:34 2006
/zones/mysql1/root/var/run on swap read/write/setuid/nodevices/xattr/zone=mysql1/dev=4a0000f on Tue Dec 5 14:06:34 2006
Here's another oddity, I've tried commenting out all the lofs entries except for the first one (opt/csw/etc) and it works just fine.