Raw ZFS zvol points to invalid pseudo zfs device - DB wont start because chunk missing

Feb 9, 2021 11:35AM

# ls -al /dev/IMAGE*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 informix informix 35 Aug 4 2015 /dev/IMAGE_DB -> /dev/zvol/rdsk/informix-db/IMAGE_DB

lrwxrwxrwx 1 informix informix 36 Jul 30 2015 /dev/IMAGE_MIRROR -> /dev/zvol/rdsk/informix/IMAGE_MIRROR

# ls -al /dev/zvol/rdsk/informix-db/IMAGE_DB

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Sep 8 2015 /dev/zvol/rdsk/informix-db/IMAGE_DB -> ../../../../devices/pseudo/zfs@0:8c,raw

root@chi-dbs-pl2 # ls -al /dev/zvol/rdsk/informix/IMAGE_MIRROR

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Sep 8 2015 /dev/zvol/rdsk/informix/IMAGE_MIRROR -> ../../../../devices/pseudo/zfs@0:1c,raw

# ls -al ../../../../devices/pseudo/zfs@0:8c,raw

../../../../devices/pseudo/zfs@0:8c,raw: No such file or directory

OK. So I understand the links to /dev/zvol are created when a zpool is created. BUT what about the onward link to /devices/pseudo? Is that the same?

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