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Subject: Re: zfsboot patch for /usr
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From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:39:36 -0500
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On 03/09/2016 18:36, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Wondering if anyone has example patches for zfsboot (from
> usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts)?
> 
> We're looking to change some of the default zfs subvolumes, removing /usr in
> favor of /usr/local in particular, and have run into a "parent does not exist"
> issue.  It's not clear where in the script the /usr parent dir should be
> mkdir'd.
> 
> Roger
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You don't mkdir it, you create it as a ZFS dataset, and mark it with the
'canmount=no' property, so it only exists to be a parent, not as an
actual dataset. This is the default in zfboot currently.

-- 
Allan Jude