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ZFS Raw Device User/group Ownership do not survive zone reboot (Doc ID 1619311.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 19, 2023

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 10 3/05 and later
Solaris Cluster - Version 3.2 to 4.3 [Release 3.2 to 4.3]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Device file permissions/ownership has been manually set for a raw zvol on the underlying /devices file.

For example:

# ls -ltr /dev/zvol/rdsk/<POOL>l

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           0 Jan 29 11:45 <ZFS_VOLUME> -> ../../../..//devices/pseudo/zfs@0:28,raw
# ls -ltr /devices/pseudo/zfs@0:28,raw
crw-rw----   1 <UID>      <GID> 287, 28 Jan 29 11:47 /devices/pseudo/zfs@0:28,raw

Upon reboot the device ownership is reset to the default of root:root

Cause

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