What about a solution for any recursive mounts? FastTrack time

[James Carlson]

Nils Goroll writes:
> this is really quite an old issue which I came across a lot of times in
> many different scenarios.
> 
> Having read this thread, my feeling is that what is being suggested right
> now would solve the lofs of UFS and lofs of zfs issues, but what about...

I have as well.  What we need is some sort of an integrated mount
system -- allowing ZFS to do mounts on its own and out-of-order with
respect to the rest of the system has certainly caused problems in
certain situations.

However, I think a better place to discuss this would be the
smf-discuss list (since you're proposing to use SMF to address the
dependencies) and the zfs-discuss list (as many of the issues were
surfaced by ZFS's unique design).

The opensolaris-arc list is intended for architectural reviews of
proposed projects, and we need one of those first before proceeding
here.

> So adding yet another layer by delaying lfos mounts will probably solve
> this issue, but not the general case.

Yep.

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