zfs discuss - Dec 2009 - zfs zone filesystem creation does not mount if root of pool is not mounted

$zpool create dpool mirror c1t2d0 c1t3d0
$zfs set mountpoint=none dpool
$zfs create -o mountpoint=/export/zones dpool/zones

On Solaris 10 Update 8 when creating a zone with zonecfg and setting the
zonepath to "/export/zones/test1" and then installing with zoneadm
install, the zfs zonepath file system gets created but not mounted if the root
of the pool "dpool" is not mounted. An "ls" of /export/zones
reveals that instead of a filesystem, a directory is created and the zone is
installed there. Can anyone validate whether or not this is happening in
opensolaris? I don''t have any free drives to test this with.

$zfs list -o name,used,avail,reservation,quota,mounted,mountpoint
NAME                     USED   AVAIL  RESERV  QUOTA  MOUNTED  MOUNTPOINT
dpool                     224M   134G    none   none       no  none
dpool/zones           224M   134G    none   none      yes  /export/zones
dpool/zones/test1    21K   134G    none   none       no  /export/zones/test1
dpool/zones/test2    21K   134G    none   none       no  /export/zones/test2
dpool/zones/testfs   21K   134G    none   none      yes  /export/zones/testfs

$zoneadm list -vc
  ID NAME             STATUS     PATH                           BRAND    IP
   0 global              running    /                                  native  
shared
   3 test1               running    /export/zones/test1     native   shared
   4 test2               running    /export/zones/test2     native   shared
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A bug is being filed on this by Sun. A Senior Sun Engineer was able to replicate
the problem and the only work around they suggested was to temporarily mount the
parent filesystem on the pool. This applies to Sol 10 Update 8; not sure about
anything else.
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