Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about zfs recv -d, apparently

[Lori Alt]

Dave wrote:

> Frank Cusack wrote:
>
> > When you try to backup the '/' part of the root pool, it will get
> > mounted on the altroot itself, which is of course already occupied.
> > At that point, the receive will fail.
> >
> > So far as I can tell, mounting the received filesystem is the last
> > step in the process.  So I guess maybe you could replicate everything
> > except '/', finally replicate '/' and just ignore the error message.
> > I haven't tried this.  You have to do '/' last because the receive
> > stops at that point even if there is more data in the stream.
>
>
> Wouldn't it be relatively easy to add an option to 'zfs receive' to 
> ignore/not mount the received filesystem, or set the canmount option 
> to 'no' when receiving? Is there an RFE for this, or has it been added 
> to a more recent release already?

see:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6794452

now fixed in both the community edition and in Update 8
of Solaris 10.

- Lori

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