strange behaviour with p9fs vs zfs
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:07:08 UTC
hello, i've noticed some odd behaviour in p9fs that might be a bug. this is on main ~29af6d2e2ec9fe8df7cf1e1a0bf3597028831b18 on amd64. on the host, i have a basic ZFS hierarchy: # zfs list -r zroot/p9test NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zroot/p9test 400K 682G 112K /zroot/p9test zroot/p9test/a 96K 682G 96K /zroot/p9test/a zroot/p9test/b 96K 682G 96K /zroot/p9test/b zroot/p9test/c 96K 682G 96K /zroot/p9test/c this is exported to the VM via bhyve -s 6:0,virtio-9p,p9test=/zroot/p9test,ro inside the VM, i can mount the filesystem: # mount -tp9fs p9test /mnt however, while the top-level directory looks fine, all the descendent mountpoints appear to be copies of the top-level directory: # ls -i /mnt 34 a 34 b 34 c # ls -i /mnt/a 34 a 34 b 34 c # ls -i /mnt/a/a 34 a 34 b 34 c # ls -i /mnt/a/a/b 34 a 34 b 34 c # ls -i /mnt/a/a/b/a 34 a 34 b 34 c i would expect them to either appear empty (unhelpful, but at least correct) or else for p9fs to traverse into the descentent filesystem (much more helpful).