ZFS automatically mounts file systems when file systems are created or when the system boots. Use of the zfs mount command is necessary only when you need to change mount options, or explicitly mount or unmount file systems.
The zfs mount command with no arguments shows all currently mounted file systems that are managed by ZFS. Legacy managed mount points are not displayed. For example:
# zfs mount | grep tank/home zfs mount | grep tank/home tank/home /tank/home tank/home/jeff /tank/home/jeff
You can use the –a option to mount all ZFS managed file systems. Legacy managed file systems are not mounted. For example:
# zfs mount -a
By default, ZFS does not allow mounting on top of a nonempty directory. For example:
# zfs mount tank/home/lori cannot mount 'tank/home/lori': filesystem already mounted
Legacy mount points must be managed through legacy tools. An attempt to use ZFS tools results in an error. For example:
# zfs mount tank/home/bill cannot mount 'tank/home/bill': legacy mountpoint use mount(1M) to mount this filesystem # mount -F zfs tank/home/billm
When a file system is mounted, it uses a set of mount options based on the property values associated with the file system. The correlation between properties and mount options is as follows:
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The mount option nosuid is an alias for nodevices,nosetuid.
You can use the NFSv4 mirror mount features to help you better manage NFS-mounted ZFS home directories.
When file systems are created on the NFS server, the NFS client can automatically discover these newly created file systems within their existing mount of a parent file system.
For example, if the server neo already shares the tank file system and client zee has it mounted, /tank/baz is automatically visible on the client after it is created on the server.
zee# mount neo:/tank /mnt zee# ls /mnt baa bar neo# zfs create tank/baz zee% ls /mnt baa bar baz zee% ls /mnt/baz file1 file2