[illumos-Developer] Difference between zfs_path_to_zhandle and zfs_open

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 20:52 -0700, Peter Tap wrote:
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> Folks,
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> Both of these functions seem to open a handle to the filesystem. When
> do you use one over the other?
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
> 

Reading the code...

zfs_path_to_zhandle() looks at the active mounts and determines what the
sensible filesystem is, and then uses that as the 2nd argument to
zfs_open().  zfs_open() expects the name actual ZFS dataset name.

	-Garrett

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