Re: I am sick and tired of the poor quality of documentation on FreeBSD

From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:29:33 UTC 
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:07:47 -0700
"Edward Sanford Sutton, III" <mirror176@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Another fun gotcha is if you use zpool send+zpool receive to write a 
> backup of a boot disk to removable media instead of writing the 
> datastream as a file to the backup media, you get to learn about the fun 
> of when your backup mounted in place of the live system because its 
> properties said for it to be mounted there. I make modifications to zfs 
> properties on the receiving side to fix that and some other 
> issues+desires but suspect there are more things I have to learn in this 

	The handy backup tool zfsautobackup solves this by setting
canmount=noauto on the receiving filesystem - seems to work fine.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>