On 28/07/2016 05:18, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2016-07-27 22:05, Randy Westlund wrote: >> I'm trying to follow Michael Dexter's post about using bhyve with boot >> environments. It involves moving all child datasets under >> zroot/ROOT/default, so that you can have entirely independent systems. >> >> http://callfortesting.org/bhyve-boot-environments/ >> >>> Let's change the datasets with "canmount on" to "canmount noauto": >>> [snip] >>> Considering that this setting is harmless to a system with a single >>> boot environment, I would not object to it being the default. Hint >>> hint. >> >> When I set all the datasets with canmount=on to canmount=noauto, only >> zroot/ROOT/default gets mounted on next boot. It's my understanding >> that 'zfs mount -a' doesn't mount datasets with canmount=noauto, but if >> I leave them with canmount=on, they will try to mount regardless of >> which BE is active. >> >> I'm trying this with 11.0-BETA2. Can sometime tell me what I'm missing? >> > > You are not missing anything. This is why the default is to have all > files that are specific to a BE be in the root dataset, and only files > that are global (like home directory, etc) be outside of the BE.
Locally I have the following rc script to handle subordinate datasets of a boot environment: http://dpaste.com/0Q0JPGN.txt It is designed for exactly the scenario described above. The script is automatically enabled when zfs_enable is enabled. It would probably make sense to include the script into the OS after some testing and a review. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
