Disappearing files in FreeBSD 13.0-R2

[David Christensen]

On 3/15/21 1:28 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
> 
> 
> I agree, it's not magic. Somehow I messed something up and it is
> fixed. It seemed to be behaving strangely.


I'm glad it worked out.  :-)


The Oracle online ZFS documents are good, but you have to bear in mind 
that Solaris and ZFS are not FreeBSD and OpenZFS:

	https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/pdf/E37384.pdf

	https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29007/docinfo.html#scrolltoc


Michael W. Lucas writes really good books.  I have many of his titles, 
including:

	https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#af3e

	https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmzfs

	https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmaz


David