On 4/12/2010 3:01 PM, Lori Alt wrote: > On 04/12/10 11:50 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: >> On 12/04/2010 18:38, Tim Haley wrote: >>> 4.1. Proposal >>> >>> A new temporary mount property will be defined for the "zfs mount" >>> command. >>> Currently, the -o option to "zfs mount" can be used to set temporary >>> values for the following properties: devices, exec, readonly, setuid, >>> and xattr. It will now be possible to assign a temporary "mountpoint" >>> property. The file system will be mounted at the temporary mountpoint >>> and the persistent "mountpoint" property for the dataset will not >>> change. >> >> Does this also allow the following to work without changing to legacy >> mountpoint: >> >> # mount -F zfs tank/a /mnt >> > I was sticking to the notion that legacy mounts work with the "legacy" > mountpoint only. So this would not be supported. This was an attempt > to be conservative about temporary mount support in an attempt to > limit its use to narrow circumstances, where the mechanism and its > constraints are well-understood. > > For example, ZFS legacy mounts can be performed on non-empty > directories. ZFS native mounts (and I consider a temporary mount to > be a native ZFS mount) cannot be performed on non-empty directories. > I didn't want to mix up the code paths between the legacy mount path > and the ZFS mount path and I didn't want the two types of mounts to > get confused, since they have different constraints. > I'd really like this to work.
For me currently 'legacy' really means "mounted through /etc/vfstab". I prefer if this was even more true, in that any ZFS filesystem could be mounted manually wherever you like using this traditional syntax (should the user even need to know that a filesystem is ZFS?) with out jumping through aditional hoops. The addition of the temporary mount functionality (assuming I understand it,) seems to open the door to allowing this. It seems a shame not to take advantage of it. -Kyle > Lori > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
