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on 16/09/2013 07:42 kpneal@pobox.com said the following:
> What happens if mountpoint is inherited instead of being set to one of
> those two values?

Would you like to test this and tell us?

I am 99.9% confident that mountpoint and canmount properties are never examined
in kernel.  They are honored only by zfs(8) utility.  Thus, they can not
possibly influence root mounting.  Modulo very very very obscure bugs, of course.

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Andriy Gapon