Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 14:12:21 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappearing files in FreeBSD 13.0-R2 Message-ID: <2aa28118-d7ef-c601-6154-6d5cc237993f@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fwuoZrU1N_GV4SS84BGVHPNxBVTuQU3ZgfvF34_Xy_8gg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFuo_fzQFbap5T9S3OBV-f18FM=UxFXX3YWF5rOq-zP%2B-cuAYQ@mail.gmail.com> <e22f9728-de71-5990-795a-81fd9d91f832@holgerdanske.com> <CAFuo_fz1Mgb7nJ_BewG_2PPuPUQqnWJ7YhebZmLcuLch-00YaA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFuo_fzRtrpkXkrBfPCj5byWNKCtjLKw6sE43puOm2vE%2Bryn_Q@mail.gmail.com> <dd9b9d46-7334-b4a6-9db4-2f4504c89436@holgerdanske.com> <CAFuo_fxBs7AGkT9aaCiQ_pWKuUZEv=2NQXBNfTf_%2Bz6xACzD2Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAOyJeZQRFg7XJX9rdy4ZWdT7UXaYt7TwW5%2BNVtmVEun71w377A@mail.gmail.com> <CAFuo_fwuoZrU1N_GV4SS84BGVHPNxBVTuQU3ZgfvF34_Xy_8gg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/15/21 1:28 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 2:12 PM Shamim Shahriar > <shamim.shahriar@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, 15:35 Waitman Gobble, <gobble.wa@gmail.com> wrote >>> >>> >>> So in summary, for some reason there was a /home directory. and if you >>> create a pool named "home" it does magic stuff like it knows it's >>> supposed to be home i guess. If /home is a directory then it acts >>> crazy. Deleting /home makes it sane again. >>> >> >> It is not magic. Any newly created pool, unless otherwise instructed, mounts the initial dataset to /<poolName> >> >> So, zpool create xyz creates /xyz and mounts the initial dataset there. >> >> Hope that helps. > > > I agree, it's not magic. Somehow I messed something up and it is > fixed. It seemed to be behaving strangely. I'm glad it worked out. :-) The Oracle online ZFS documents are good, but you have to bear in mind that Solaris and ZFS are not FreeBSD and OpenZFS: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/pdf/E37384.pdf https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29007/docinfo.html#scrolltoc Michael W. Lucas writes really good books. I have many of his titles, including: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#af3e https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmzfs https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmaz David
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