ZFS Encrypted Filesystems Fail To Mount At Boot (Doc ID 2094293.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2023

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Goal

How to have a standard behavior during boot when the filesystem is encrypted ?

and avoiding messages during the boot:

/var/svc/log/system-filesystem-local\:default.log

[ Apr 13 23:01:26 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/fs-local"). ]
cannot mount 'xxx/xxx' on '/xxx/xxx': Permission denied
cannot load key for 'xxx/xxx/xxx': No such file or directory
...

WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: one or more file systems failed to mount

and to boot normally without entering anything on keyboard
 

Solution

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