On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:32:23AM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote: > 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.
For the datasets making up a BE, yes. For datasets in the rootpool that don't make up a BE (e.g., /export/home) maybe not, I'm not sure. But yes, that makes sense. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
