Legacy Mount Points
You can manage ZFS file systems with legacy tools by setting the mountpoint
property to legacy
. Legacy file systems must be managed through the mount
and umount
commands and the /etc/vfstab
file. ZFS does not automatically mount legacy file systems at boot time, and the ZFS mount
and umount
commands do not operate on file systems of this type. The following examples show how to set up and manage a ZFS file system in legacy mode:
$ zfs set mountpoint=legacy tank/home/glori $ mount -F zfs tank/home/eschrock /mnt
To automatically mount a legacy file system at boot time, you must add an entry to the /etc/vfstab
file. The following example shows what the entry in the /etc/vfstab
file might look like:
#device device mount FS fsck mount mount #to mount to fsck point type pass at boot options # tank/home/glori - /mnt zfs - yes -
The device to fsck
and fsck pass
entries are set to -
because the fsck
command is not applicable to ZFS file systems.