From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 13:52:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C85111FD for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7FCCEA8F for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YMzca-0006rw-2I for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:52:28 +0100 Received: from 63-245-179-205.ip.mtelco.net ([63-245-179-205.ip.mtelco.net]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:52:28 +0100 Received: from jgoerzen by 63-245-179-205.ip.mtelco.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:52:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Goerzen Subject: Re: 10.1 ZFS - why canmount=off for /usr and /var by default? Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <54E01849.3020500@complete.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 63.245.179.205 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.4.0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:52:38 -0000 Ben Woods gmail.com> writes: > > To quote Allan Jude when I posed this question to him: > > "The /usr dataset has 'canmount' set to off. It only exists so that other > datasets can be created under it. That makes sense. But it is misleading to have the mountpoint set to /usr and /var, isn't it? In a zfs list, it looks as if it's being used for /usr and /var, when really as you say it's a container. I wonder - would there be a place I could submit a bug report to suggest that the mountpoint property be inherited at the default rather than set for these two filesystems? > To use boot environments, you need to install the tool from the ports tree: > sysutils/beadm-devel Interesting. That looks quite nice. I need to read up a bit more on it, clearly, since it seems to be more than just a zfs clone and zpool set bootfs that I was expecting. Thanks, John