Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:52:16AM -0700, Ric Aleshire wrote:
>> Tim Haley wrote:
>>> By default a child dataset inherits property values from its parent.
>>> There are exceptions to this, and if this is one of those, that should
>>> be noted. Also,
>>> will you allow a label to be inherited from a parent dataset via 'zfs
>>> inherit'?
>> This will inherit normally, including by the "zfs inherit" command.
>
> The thing is that "zfs inherit ..." is, effectively, unsetting the
> property so it can be inherited. If the to-be-inherited value is
> different from the current, then the same controls must apply as would
> to changing the property value in the first place. That might be
> implied by zfs inherit's definition ("[c]lears the specified property,
> causing it to be inherited from an ancestor"). I think Tim was just
> asking to make this explicit.
>
> Nico
I figured they wouldn't want the label to be an automatically inherited
property, but wasn't sure. But apparently I was wrong. :-) If it wasn't I
just wanted them to make this clear in their man page changes as we do for
other properties which are not inherited.
-tim
