[OmniOS-discuss] filesystems received from send -R

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-08-15 08:55, Michael Mounteney wrote:
> I recently moved to a new machine:
>
>       # ssh root at oldmachine 'zfs send -R rpool at M' | zfs recv rpool/bring
>
> the idea being:
>
> 1.  zfs rename my own filesystems such as rpool/bring/home to
> rpool/home.
> 2.  Copy settings from rpool/bring/omnios and below whilst setting up
> the new machine.
> 3.  Refer to stuff under rpool/bring/zone/ whilst setting up zones.
>
> but curiously, it seems that any filesystem under rpool/bring/omnios or
> rpool/bring/zone would not honour the 'zfs set mountpoint' command;
> that is, the command was accepted without error, 'zfs get' shows the
> value that I set, but in fact the directory doesn't exist.

Verify also the "canmount" property - it may disable automounting in
several ways. And it may be possible that just "receiving" the datasets
did not mount them - possibly "zfs mount -a" would rectify that then.

HTH,
//Jim