Re: How do you do ZFS legacy mounts on 7.0.0 ? -- Monday Afternoon Followup

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <14447738820.30Eec7fd.12755%m5.chicago.il.us@localhost>,
Jay F. Shachter <jay%m5.chicago.il.us@localhost> wrote:
>
>Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Greg Troxel would write on Tue
>Oct 13 08:39:06 2015:
>
>> 
>> zfs has not been well-maintained in NetBSD.   It would be great if you
>> were to dig in and help with getting it up to date, but I suspect that
>> you are going to find a lot of rough edges.
>> 
>> mounting seems to be done by 'zfs mount' and I don't see a mount_zfs on
>> netbsd-6 either.
>> 
>
>But "zfs mount", if I am not mistaken, cannot be used to mount a
>filesystem with the mountpoint=legacy attribute; the mount command
>must be used for that.
>
>Are you saying that legacy filesystems cannot be mounted on NetBSD
>systems?  That there is just no way to do it?  That seems bizarre and
>implausible, can that truly be the case?  Has no one on this mailing
>list figured out a way to mount a ZFS legacy filesystem on NetBSD?
>

Even if you succeed mounting it, if you write to it you'll probably
deadlock or panic. It is not usable.

christos