Zpool agent

The Zpool agent monitors ZFS storage pools. It exports ZFS storage pools (which reside on shared storage) from one node. It then imports the pool onto another node as required.

ZFS's automount feature mounts all its file systems by setting the mountpoint property to something other than legacy. To find the value of the mountpoint property, use the zfs get command. For example, from the command line for the tank mountpoint, enter:

# zfs get mountpoint tank

NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE

tank mountpoint /tank default

As another example, to find the value of the mountpoint property for the legacypool storage pool, enter:

# zfs get mountpoint legacypool

NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE

tank mountpoint legacy default

The Zpool agent checks this property, and checks the ChkZFSMounts attribute to decide whether the mounted file system should be checked in the Zpool agent or not.

When the value of the mountpoint property is one of the following: