illumos gate

From Joyent OS-4278:

Delegated datasets are pretty great in most ways, but an unfortunate aspect of the current implementation is the name of the dataset visible within the zone. For example:

NAME                                                           USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
zones                                                         1.26T  2.42T   768K  /zones
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05                    78.2G   242G  3.03G  /zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data               75.6G   242G    25K  /zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data/home          13.0M   242G    26K  /home
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data/home/jclulow  12.9M   242G  12.9M  /home/jclulow
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data/ws            74.6G   242G   222M  /ws
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data/ws/_jmc2      68.0G   242G  68.0G  /ws/_jmc2
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data/ws/plat       6.35G   242G  6.35G  /ws/plat
zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05/data/www           1.02G   242G  1.02G  /var/www

Here, the delegated dataset (data) is a child of the zone dataset (zones/66fe547a-a1b5-6e20-def1-d276ea585d05) in the global zone, as managed by vmadm. The first two components of this dataset name, i.e. the name of the zone dataset, are generally irrelevant to the in-zone consumer of the dataset; in fact, they make it kind of a pain to inspect visually and to use.

It would be much better if we could, at least in some circumstances, provide the name of the first delegated component (i.e. data, above) and provide a virtualised view of the delegated dataset within the zone. For example, the above should really look like this:

NAME                USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
data               75.6G   242G    25K  /data
data/home          13.0M   242G    26K  /home
data/home/jclulow  12.9M   242G  12.9M  /home/jclulow
data/ws            74.6G   242G   222M  /ws
data/ws/_jmc2      68.0G   242G  68.0G  /ws/_jmc2
data/ws/plat       6.35G   242G  6.35G  /ws/plat
data/www           1.02G   242G  1.02G  /var/www