Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost> writes:

> J. Hannken-Illjes wrote:
>> What is wrong with ZFS legacy mounts?
>> 
>> $ zpool create -m legacy tank ....
>> $ zfs create tank/a
>> $ mount -t zfs tank/a /mnt
>
> Hmm, I heard about ZFS legacy (quite a while ago!) but I didn't
> look into it because, well, "legacy"...
>
> Are there any downside of mixing legacy and non-legacy mountpoints?
> E.g. if my /var is legacy but /var/crash is a normal ZFS mountpoint?
>
> Alex


That should work fine as long as /var was arranged to be mounted first.
The other way around may and probably is trouble right now, where a
zpool Not-legacy needs to be mounted so that a ZFS legacy filesystem or,
in fact, any other filesystem type gets mounted under it.  I believe
that Solaris did and probably still does have this problem too.  Legacy
ZFS mounts should be perfectly workable even from single user when /usr
isn't available yet for most simple use cases.



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