On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:07:59PM -0800, Vahid Moghaddasi wrote:
>
> Why would I ever need to specify ZFS mount(s) in /etc/vfstab at all? I
> see it in some documents that zfs can be defined in /etc/vfstab with
> fstype zfs.
>  

Besides legacy scripts or environments, this also may be required if you
want to place a system directory (/var, /usr, etc) on a separate ZFS
dataset.  This is because normal ZFS datasets do not get mounted as part
of filesystem/minimal, but as part of filesystem/local.  It's possible
to scan for such datasets earlier, but given the workaround of using
legacy mounts, it hasn't been high priority.

- Eric

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Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development       http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
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