> >>   - I'm a bit confused by why you have the if clause on 91 at all.  If I'm
> >>     reading it correctly, if we run across the active BE, we end up
> >>     ignoring the fact that we were asked to create an object based on
> >>     "root".  Is that correct?  Why is that right?
> >
> > hmm. your right. if root = '/' then be_mountpoint = "legacy" so I needed to 
> > check be_active for the '/' case. However if we run across '/' before the 
> > intended target of the -R argument the this is wrong. Good catch!
> 
> This is hardcoding some scarily broken zfs behavior.  Please provide a
> comment explaining that be_mountpoint will be "legacy" when the be in
> question is the active BE mounted at /.  I hope that the ZFS folks correct
> this.  If they aren't going to, it's probably worthwhile having your code
> go figure out what the real mountpoints are.

There's a blog about ZFS root and legacy mount here:

http://blogs.sun.com/lalt/entry/zfs_roots_legacy_mount_or

This explains some of the tradeoffs for why the code is the way it is
today.  I'm not sure it'll always be possible to find the mountpoint for
a legacy mount, but checking in vfstab would be a start.

-j
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