> Anton B. Rang wrote:
> > I'd filed 6452505 (zfs create should set permissions on underlying 
> > mountpoint) so that this shouldn't cause problems in the future....
> 
> Err.. the way you have described that, seems backward to me, and violates 
> existing expected known solaris behaviour, not to mention logical separation 
> of filesystems.
> zfs should not go changing the permissions on the [presumably] ufs directory 
> underneath it. Yuck!

Perhaps the way the synopsis is phrased is ambiguous, but I understood
the issue to be with mountpoints that ZFS creates for you, not for
existing mountpoints.  At least that's the example in the report.

> how about, "operations on zfs filesystems should ignore permissions of the 
> underlying mount point"?

As referred to in the synopsis: 4697677.

> (although maybe this has to be "fixed" at the vfs level. But if so... Good! 
> it's only about 10 years overdue...)

True.


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