Lucreate with zfs system

Question

Hello,
Am relatively new to using liveupgrade to patch solaris 10 systems, but so far have found it to work pretty well. I have come across an oddity on a system that I would like to have explained. The system has solaris 10 installed, with one zfs pool rpool, and when I create an alternate BE to patch with: lucreate -n altBEname, it does not use the clone/snapshots of zfs to quickly create the alternate BE. It looks like it is creating a full copy (like lucreate does on our systems using ufs), and takes about 45 minutes to 1 hr to complete. On other solaris 10 systems installed with zfs, the lucreate command completes in a minute or so, and a snapshot along with the alternate BE is in the zfs list output. On this system there is no snapshot, only the alternate BE. Below is output from commands run on the system to show what I am trying to describe. Any ideas what might be the problem, thanks:
bash# lustatus
Boot Environment Is Active Active Can Copy
Name Complete Now On Reboot Delete Status
Solaris_10_012011_patched yes yes yes no -
Solaris_10_022011_patched yes no no yes -
bash# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool 22.1G 112G 97K /rpool
rpool/ROOT 17.0G 112G 21K legacy
rpool/ROOT/Solaris_10_012011_patched 9.18G 112G 9.18G /
rpool/ROOT/Solaris_10_022011_patched 7.87G 112G 7.87G /
rpool/dump 1.00G 112G 1.00G -
rpool/export 44K 112G 23K /export
rpool/export/home 21K 112G 21K /export/home
rpool/swap 4.05G 112G 4.05G -
bash# lucreate -n Solaris_10_072011_patched
Analyzing system configuration.
Comparing source boot environment <Solaris_10_012011_patched> file systems
with the file system(s) you specified for the new boot environment.
Determining which file systems should be in the new boot environment.
Updating boot environment description database on all BEs.
Updating system configuration files.
Creating configuration for boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched>.
Source boot environment is <Solaris_10_012011_patched>.
Creating boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched>.
Creating file systems on boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched>.
Creating <zfs> file system for </> in zone <global> on <rpool/ROOT/Solaris_10_072011_patched>.
/usr/lib/lu/lumkfs: test: unknown operator zfs
Populating file systems on boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched>.
Checking selection integrity.
Integrity check OK.
Populating contents of mount point </>.
Copying.
Creating shared file system mount points.
Creating compare databases for boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched>.
Creating compare database for file system </>.
Creating compare database for file system </>.
Updating compare databases on boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched>.
Updating compare databases on boot environment <Solaris_10_022011_patched>.
Making boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched> bootable.
Population of boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched> successful.
Creation of boot environment <Solaris_10_072011_patched> successful.
bash# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool 30.8G 103G 97K /rpool
rpool/ROOT 25.8G 103G 21K legacy
rpool/ROOT/Solaris_10_012011_patched 9.22G 103G 9.22G /
rpool/ROOT/Solaris_10_022011_patched 7.87G 103G 7.87G /
rpool/ROOT/Solaris_10_072011_patched 8.70G 103G 8.70G /
rpool/dump 1.00G 103G 1.00G -
rpool/export 44K 103G 23K /export
rpool/export/home 21K 103G 21K /export/home
rpool/swap 4.05G 103G 4.05G -

Answer 1

Hi,
i have installed Solaris10 x86 in vmware. The root disk is currently present on UFS Filesystem. "c0d0s0" on disk "c0d0"
i have placed another new disk and created a root pool (rpool). "c0t2d0s0" on "c0t2d0"
lustatus -> (shows the c0d0s0) as the current boot environment
when i try to create a new zfs boot environment it gives me a error. Please help
"lucreate -c c0d0s0 -n zfsBE -p rpool"
it tells me "unknown option -- p"
cat /etc/release shows me this...
Solaris 10 5/08 s10x_u5wos_10 X86
Please help!!!!