On January 28, 2009 9:24:21 AM -0800 Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
i guess it's ok for the root pool since it's always available and always first. -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
