Automatic Mount Points

• When changing from legacy or none, ZFS automatically mounts the file system.

• If ZFS is currently managing the file system but it is currently unmounted, and the mountpoint property is changed, the file system remains unmounted.

You can also set the default mount point for the root dataset at creation time by using zpool create's -m option. For more information about creating pools, see Creating a ZFS Storage Pool.

Any dataset whose mountpoint property is not legacy is managed by ZFS. In the following example, a dataset is created whose mount point is automatically managed by ZFS.

# zfs create pool/filesystem
# zfs get mountpoint pool/filesystem
NAME             PROPERTY      VALUE                      SOURCE
pool/filesystem  mountpoint    /pool/filesystem           default
# zfs get mounted pool/filesystem
NAME             PROPERTY      VALUE                      SOURCE
pool/filesystem  mounted       yes                        -

You can also explicitly set the mountpoint property as shown in the following example:

# zfs set mountpoint=/mnt pool/filesystem
# zfs get mountpoint pool/filesystem
NAME             PROPERTY      VALUE                      SOURCE
pool/filesystem  mountpoint    /mnt                       local
# zfs get mounted pool/filesystem
NAME             PROPERTY      VALUE                      SOURCE
pool/filesystem  mounted       yes                        -

When the mountpoint property is changed, the file system is automatically unmounted from the old mount point and remounted to the new mount point. Mount point directories are created as needed. If ZFS is unable to unmount a file system due to it being active, an error is reported and a forced manual unmount is necessary.