Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:02:02 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: marquis@roble.com, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zfsboot patch for /usr Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ6KVs_J1AVAZ-R5Loo9PpXdNYN0RYEmtFX3MoJDAttMOA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56E0BA15.50702@quip.cz> References: <20160309233641.91BEA2849B@elsa.codelab.cz> <56E0BA15.50702@quip.cz>
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On Mar 9, 2016 4:04 PM, "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: > > Roger Marquis wrote on 03/10/2016 00:36: >> >> Wondering if anyone has example patches for zfsboot (from >> usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts)? >> >> We're looking to change some of the default zfs subvolumes, removing /usr in >> favor of /usr/local in particular, and have run into a "parent does not exist" >> issue. It's not clear where in the script the /usr parent dir should be >> mkdir'd. > > > I no nothing about this script but if you want /usr/local as ZFS filesystem, then you need to create parent (/usr in this case) and you can use property canmount=off plus different 'mountpoint' (for example /mnt/usr) to not mount /usr over existing directory on root filesystem. Set mountpoint=none if you just want to create the parent dataset without actually using it for storage. Then you can set properties on it, and child datasets will inherit then. Like pool/usr/local You'd still need to "mkdir /usr" in the script, but that's separate.
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