Matthew Ahrens wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> I think there is in impact to ZFS Crypto and potentially other create >> time only properties here. Create time only properties can't change >> so they can't be "reverted" either. This is especially true of the >> encryption property which is really hiding quite a lot of complex >> infrastructure behind it. >> >> Maybe this isn't actually an issue but I didn't see any mention of >> special treatment of create time only dataset properties. > > I don't see how this is an issue. Since create-time properties can't be > changed, nothing in this case applies to them.
Matt clarified further offline for me with a specific example. The ZPL properties are "sticky" with the data - which is the only way to do it. So +1 from me. -- Darren J Moffat