Frank Cusack wrote: > i was wondering if you have a zfs filesystem that mounts in a subdir > in another zfs filesystem, is there any problem with zfs finding > them in the wrong order and then failing to mount correctly? > > say you have pool1/data which mounts on /data and pool2/foo which > mounts on /data/subdir/foo, what if at boot time, pool2 is imported > first, what happens? /data would exist but /data/subdir wouldn't > exist since pool1/data hasn't been mounted yet. >
It is a race condition and the mount may fail. Don't do this, unless you also use legacy mounts. Mounts of file systems inside a pool works fine because the order is discernable. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
