Disappearing files in FreeBSD 13.0-R2

[Waitman Gobble]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 2:12 PM Shamim Shahriar
<shamim.shahriar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, 15:35 Waitman Gobble, <gobble.wa at gmail.com> wrote
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>> So in summary, for some reason there was a /home directory. and if you
>> create a pool named "home" it does magic stuff like it knows it's
>> supposed to be home i guess. If /home is a directory then it acts
>> crazy. Deleting /home makes it sane again.
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> It is not magic. Any newly created pool, unless otherwise instructed, mounts the initial dataset to /<poolName>
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> So, zpool create xyz creates /xyz and mounts the initial dataset there.
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> Hope that helps.


I agree, it's not magic. Somehow I messed something up and it is
fixed. It seemed to be behaving strangely.

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Waitman Gobble