Truenas core created directory /mnt/<pool>/<dataset>-2975-<timestamp> around the time of an unexpected reboot

aklibisz

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I'm running Truenas Core 13.0-U5.3

I have a pool called "primary" at /mnt/primary and an encrypted dataset "user" at /mnt/primary/user. I have an SMB share in the user dataset which I use to store several user home directories at /mnt/primary/user/<username>

About ten days ago my system had an unexpected power loss and it rebooted. After the reboot, I noticed that there was a new directory, /mnt/primary/user-2975-2023-11-26T12:46:57.633330/. This directory contained two subdirectories for two of the users, e.g., /mnt/primary/user-2975-2023-11-26T12:46:57.633330/user1 and /mnt/primary/user-2975-2023-11-26T12:46:57.633330/user2. Each of these directories only contains about ten dot files (.profile, .shrc, .mailrc) and no other directories or files. Basically looks like what you would see when you SSH into any fresh Linux installation. The entire directory is ~100kb.

I'm trying to understand how this directory came into existence.

My best speculation is that maybe there was a brief timespan when the system had rebooted, the dataset was not yet unlocked, these two users tried to access their data, and so Truenas created an adhoc home directory for them?

I appreciate any clarification. Apologies if this has already been asked. I didn't find anything in search, but also wasn't really sure how to phrase the query.
 
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