On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:07:06AM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote:
> On January 28, 2009 9:41:20 AM -0600 Bob Friesenhahn 
> <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote:
> >> i was wondering if you have a zfs filesystem that mounts in a subdir
> >> in another zfs filesystem, is there any problem with zfs finding
> >> them in the wrong order and then failing to mount correctly?
> >
> > I have not encountered that problem here and I do have a multilevel mount
> > heirarchy so I assume that ZFS orders the mounting intelligently.
> 
> well, the thing is, if the two filesystems are in different pools (let
> me repeat the example):

Then weird things happen I think.  You run into the same problems if you
want to mix ZFS and non-ZFS filesystems in a mount hierarchy.  You end
up having to set the mountpoint property so the mounts don't happen at
boot and then write a service to mount all the relevant things in order.

Nico
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