In general, you can force the unmount with the "-f" flag.

As to your specific question of changing the mountpoint to somewhere that
it can't currently be mounted, it should set the mountpoint property but
not remount it.  E.g.:

# zfs set mountpoint=/ rpool/test
cannot mount '/': directory is not empty
property may be set but unable to remount filesystem
# zfs get mountpoint rpool/test
NAME        PROPERTY    VALUE       SOURCE
rpool/test  mountpoint  /           local

If for some reason that isn't working for you, you could try "zfs set
canmount=noauto", possibly combined with changing it back to canmount=on
after changing the mountpoint.  The the zfs(1m) manpage's description of
the canmount property for more details.

--matt

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jim Klimov <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote:

> There are times when ZFS options can not be applied at the moment,
> i.e. changing desired mountpoints of active filesystems (or setting
> a mountpoint over a filesystem location that is currently not empty).
>
> Such attempts now bail out with messages like:
> cannot unmount '/var/adm': Device busy
> cannot mount '/export': directory is not empty
>
> and such.
>
> Is it possible to force the new values to be saved into ZFS dataset
> properties, so they do take effect upon next pool import?
>
> I currently work around the harder of such situations with a reboot
> into a different boot environment or even into a livecd/failsafe,
> just so that the needed datasets or paths won't be "busy" and so I
> can set, verify and apply these mountpoint values. This is not a
> convenient way to do things :)
>
> Thanks,
> //Jim Klimov
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