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Subject: Re: Difficulties to use ZFS root: ROOT MOUNT ERROR
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According to Jeremie Le Hen:
> The kernel boots fine, it finds the root filesystem, but fails miserably
> when running rc.d scripts because deeper datasets are not mounted (/var,
> /usr, ...).
> 
> I've been fiddling this this for 3 hours this afternoon without luck.
> Does anyone have an idea on this please?

Have you changed the mountpoint property for all FS below root ?

zfs set mountpoint=/usr tank/root/usr
...

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