Saturday March 22, 2008

solaris 10, sun cluster, zfs, and zones not creating devices

I had this strange problem where zones weren't properly creating devices. This is on a newly Jumpstarted Solaris 10, Sun Cluster 3.2, cluster. The strange part is that we have 8 other clusters that all run zones, and none of them have the problem. I thought it might have been something wierd with ZFS, but other zones on ZFS roots can create devices.

As it turns out, the Jumpstart server that we built this cluster with is not as 'up to date' as our 'main' Jumpstart server, and was not patching new builds up to the latest kernel patch.

Updating the system with kernel patch 127111-11 resolves this issue. This patch patches a ton of stuff.

The specific bug that hit us was bugID 6608977 can't add device to non-global zone in S10 update 4.

That bug was actually fixed in 127111-03 but 127111-11 fixes a ton of stuff.