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ZFS filesystem implications

Added by Steve Wheeler almost 2 years ago. Updated almost 2 years ago.

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Jim Pingle
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Installation / Upgrades
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One of the recent file system changes to the default ZFS install was to mount some things as 'noexec'.
This includes /conf which may be an issue for some users who have custom scripts at that location. At one time that was the recommended location for such scripts.

Users using that should move custom scripts to an executable location, such as /root, and update and commands that reference them.

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Updated by Steve Wheeler almost 2 years ago

  • Subject changed from ZFS filesystem layout changes implications to ZFS filesystem layout change implications
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Updated by Jim Pingle almost 2 years ago

  • Subject changed from ZFS filesystem layout change implications to ZFS filesystem implications
  • Category changed from Administrivia to Installation / Upgrades
  • Target version deleted (2.7.0)

This isn't a recent change in ZFS, as the /cf/conf dataset has been configured with the exec property set to off for quite some time. Even back on Plus 21.05.2/CE 2.5.2 it was set that way.

So more likely this may impact someone moving from UFS to ZFS and not someone upgrading ZFS in-place.

For reference, here is a list of current ZFS datasets and their properties:

: zfs get exec
NAME                  PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
pfSense               exec      on     default
pfSense/ROOT          exec      on     default
pfSense/ROOT/default  exec      on     default
pfSense/cf            exec      off    local
pfSense/cf/conf       exec      off    local
pfSense/home          exec      on     default
pfSense/reservation   exec      on     default
pfSense/tmp           exec      on     local
pfSense/var           exec      on     default
pfSense/var/cache     exec      off    local
pfSense/var/db        exec      off    local
pfSense/var/log       exec      off    local
pfSense/var/tmp       exec      on     default

This may change again before release (#12967) so it might be good to wait until after all the pending work gets merged before making updates to the docs.

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