From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 12:06:43 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C9502E8 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f41.google.com (mail-yh0-f41.google.com [209.85.213.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DCF0B72 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhoc41 with SMTP id c41so4428755yho.2 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:06:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=9MGpjNmIyI+FrnacjLG51jLLu42973C/b9vqFyQ6hsk=; b=0yX7yyAA1AVMYb7NoqIygtRdy54Gq46f2JN9k3V9Pn89tbwZWJt6LcSi1J5EIL7YMf TQDgI99TnbxXdilIcWuoi1V2ELLN4ChNVT2qSRq+KJmVkwRqXHonTeDOzsgnEX7wnUEU EUDNt4IDJZ6xKB3AJECkZtjiwm5mKPYSN87hznJRQpu8Oet7caGl70+RfwSNCR7Gr/pV PwFfjMjwFLUKEaUr88cJGSd91uwV4fE3pCBcyCNqOKYWRvKRm0hi54jfP/yVAC6x58Do jXdfsv7K5VZZIQst8jSjQ/oD0A7DT7LOnnjqH+0dJ2s0Ijr3e+bhH0oHUhZftZaVukH+ 9G4A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.170.190.69 with SMTP id h66mr2682148yke.51.1424347601976; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.170.188.1 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:06:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <54E01849.3020500@complete.org> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:06:41 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 10.1 ZFS - why canmount=off for /usr and /var by default? From: krad To: John Goerzen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:06:43 -0000 It is a bit confusing, I have to ask why call it zroot/usr at all? I use /os/ for stuff like ports etc and then set the mountpoint. If we must use usr in the name why not set the mountpoint to legacy as well, as its more clearly not used? On 15 February 2015 at 13:52, John Goerzen wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >