[Bug 253445] bectl: does not function in two-level zfs datasets

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253445

--- Comment #34 from Jonathan Vasquez <jon@xyinn.org> ---
@Andriy

I would have to disagree. bectl is a tool, so it shouldn't really need to worry
about whether a person used a conventional or non-conventional layout. They are
all just zfs datasets after all and bectl is a glorified wrapper around 'zfs
snapshot', 'zfs clone', 'zfs promote', and setting the 'bootfs' property (from
my understanding at a high level). Choosing to support only "conventional"
layouts severely reduces the effectiveness and useful of the tool and makes me
feel that the OS is actually working against me and not really respecting my
decisions. FreeBSD in general, already delegates a lot of responsibility to the
user and it's the users responsibility to understand how things work and not
shoot themselves in the foot. With that in mind, I don't see a reason why BEs
should have a lot of hand holding in this regard and not just display all the
available datasets. I think what @Kyle mentioned makes sense and it's a
compromise approach in that we will hold your hand a little bit by just showing
you only datasets who's mountpoints are set to either "none" or "/" (which
protects the users who might have done a "zfs clone <snapshot> <target>" let's
say.. there's a lot of other scenarios where a zfs dataset can have a
mountpoint other than / haha. Thus just displaying things for "none" and "/"
would cover pretty much all of the use cases, protect most of the users, and
still allow the tool to be completely flexible and layout agnostic.

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