On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Matt Harrison
<iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com> wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 20:52, Eric Sproul wrote:

>> What files would those be?  Usually the pool name (and therefore the
>> dataset names) doesn't matter-- only mountpoints matter to most things
>> on the system, but maybe you have a more interesting use case.  :)
>>
>> Eric
>
> Nothing that impressive :D I have quite a few scripts and config files that
> of course access the data via the mountpoint, which in my case refers to the
> pool name. It's just slightly possible I exaggerated the number of files,
> but still I'd prefer not to do it at all. :)

> But Cindy has just chimed in and confirmed that I can indeed just import the
> pool under the old name.

I think Eric's point was that the zpool/zfs name and the mountpoint do
NOT have to be the same.

See the zfs "mountpoint" property (zfs get mountpoint <zfs> and zfs
set mountpoint=<foo> <zfs>).

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