Re: zfs creates mountpoint of (pool)/mountpoint?

In reply to: ICT builder : "zfs creates mountpoint of (pool)/mountpoint?"
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From: David Christensen <dpchrist_at_holgerdanske.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:07:29 UTC

On 4/16/23 16:47, ICT builder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I do a:
> 
> # zfs create zroot/data
> 
> 
> 
> And then a:
> 
> # zfs list|grep data
> zroot/data                   96K   898G       96K  /zroot/data
> 
> 
> 
> Then I see a mount point of /zroot/data
> 
> I want and would expect it to be mount point /data
> 
> 
> 
> Ggogling how to set mount point I found:
> 
> # zfs set mountpoint=/data zroot/data
> root@ansible:~ # zfs list | grep data
> zroot/data                   96K   898G       96K  /data
> 
> 
> Can I create zfs datasets so it is mounted on /mountpoint instead of 
> pool/mountpoint?
> 
> T
> 
> hanks for reading so far,
> Cor


See zfs(8) -- you can set properties when creating a filesystem:

2023-04-16 17:02:33 toor@vf1 ~
# freebsd-version; uname -a
12.4-RELEASE-p2
FreeBSD vf1.tracy.holgerdanske.com 12.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 
12.4-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC  amd64

2023-04-16 17:02:40 toor@vf1 ~
# zfs create -o mountpoint=/foo vf1zpool1/foo

2023-04-16 17:03:21 toor@vf1 ~
# zfs list vf1zpool1/foo
NAME            USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
vf1zpool1/foo    96K   830M    96K  /foo

2023-04-16 17:03:48 toor@vf1 ~
# mount | grep foo
vf1zpool1/foo on /foo (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)

2023-04-16 17:04:08 toor@vf1 ~
# ls -ld /foo
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  2 Apr 16 17:02 /foo


David