[OmniOS-discuss] How do non-rpool ZFS filesystems get mounted?

Richard Elling richard.elling at richardelling.com
Mon Mar 10 15:56:45 UTC 2014


> On Mar 10, 2014, at 8:13 AM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> 
> On 2014-03-09 03:28, Richard Elling wrote:> The basic problem affects other file systems, too. The general best practice
> > has always been to keep your hierarchy flat. But...
> 
> That is a strange best practice, especially given that ZFS allows
> and markets the ability of hierarchical datasets.

Hierarchial datasets work well. The problems occur with hierarchial pools.
 -- richard

> But at least in
> this case, this is irrelevant since Chris's setup used datasets
> living just under the pool's root. Flatter than that is a private
> pool per user, which is not quite the promoted ZFS way ;)
> 
>> On 2014-03-09 03:56, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
>> [*: This is where I wish SMF had a way to report the full dependency
>>     graph in one go in some format, so you did not have to play
>>     whack-a-mole when doing this sort of thing and also potentially
>>     blow up your system.]
> 
> This one immediately came to mind:
> "SMF Dependency Graph Generator"
> https://java.net/projects/scfdot/pages/Home
> https://java.net/projects/scfdot/sources/scfdot-src/show
> 
> I am not sure how alive or functional this project is today, and on
> OmniOS (or any other non-Oracle distro) in particular. But IMHO it
> is the best fit to your question (says so on the label ;) ).
> 
> //Jim
> 
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