[OmniOS-discuss] filesystems received from send -R

[Michael Mounteney]

I recently moved to a new machine:

     # ssh root at oldmachine 'zfs send -R rpool at M' | zfs recv rpool/bring

the idea being:

1.  zfs rename my own filesystems such as rpool/bring/home to
rpool/home.
2.  Copy settings from rpool/bring/omnios and below whilst setting up
the new machine.
3.  Refer to stuff under rpool/bring/zone/ whilst setting up zones.

but curiously, it seems that any filesystem under rpool/bring/omnios or
rpool/bring/zone would not honour the 'zfs set mountpoint' command;
that is, the command was accepted without error, 'zfs get' shows the
value that I set, but in fact the directory doesn't exist.

It was necessary to copy the filesystem with send and recv to be able
to view the contents.  The mountpoint settings of those filesystem are
special in some way.  My own filesystems, those that I had created
myself with zfs create, behaved as expected;  i.e., could be 'zfs
rename'-d or 'zfs set mountpoint'-ed.

This is surely a bug n'est-ce pas ?

Michael.