[BUGS] Any FreeBSD-11-stable ZFS experts on the list?

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi all,

Just in case any of you were hanging on the resolution of this "problem", I'd like to let you know that it has been resolved as lying entirely within the region of "pilot error".  Specifically, I had not realised that the hierarchy of filesystems that I had created, and marked "no-auto" for mounting, would not recursively mount themselves when I manually mounted the root file system.  Without being mounted, as Andrew suggested, the internal .zfs/snapshots directories did not appear.  Manual mounting of child filesystems is necessary.

So: my backups are all where they're supposed to be, I just didn't know (or had forgotten) how to find them.

Whew!

Cheers,

Andrew Reilly



> On 9 Apr 2017, at 15:00 , Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> > there is nothing showing up in the directory at all
> 
> I think this is related to mounting.  If you used "zfs receive -u" then it doesn't mount the filesystem that is being received.
> 
> Check the output of "zfs list" and "zfs mount", and the zfs properties "mounted", and "mountpoint" for all the filesystems in that hierarchy.
> 
> There have also been ZFS bugs in the past relating to thinking received filesystems were mounted when they aren't, so try rebooting :-)
> 
> - Andrew
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