I previously followed something similar to https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS to have boot/root on ZFS on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. Note that (as per the guide) /var/empty was a separate ZFS filesystem with
I've recently installed a fresh 10.0-RELEASE, and used good ol'
Does anybody know of the reason why this is the case, and whether there is a way to get rid of this folder?
Thanks!
Alvin
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.I've recently installed a fresh 10.0-RELEASE, and used good ol'
cp -R ...
to copy the old /var (from the ZFS root above) onto a different ZFS pool as a backup. But now I cannot remove or modify the backup of /var/empty:
Code:
# cd /pool/backup/var
# ls -al empty
total 17
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jan 3 2012 ./
drwxrwxrwx 24 root wheel 24 Dec 11 18:28 ../
# chmod 777 empty
chmod: empty: Operation not permitted
# rmdir empty
rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted
#
Does anybody know of the reason why this is the case, and whether there is a way to get rid of this folder?
Thanks!
Alvin