Ameer Hamza cb2e2f9c4f libzfs: use mount_setattr for selective remount including legacy mounts
When a namespace property is changed via zfs set, libzfs remounts the
filesystem to propagate the new VFS mount flags. The current approach
uses mount(2) with MS_REMOUNT, which reads all namespace properties
from ZFS and applies them together. This has two problems:

1. Linux VFS resets unspecified per-mount flags on remount. If an
   administrator sets a temporary flag (e.g. mount -o remount,noatime),
   a subsequent zfs set on any namespace property clobbers it.

2. Two concurrent zfs set operations on different namespace properties
   can overwrite each other's mount flags.

Additionally, legacy datasets (mountpoint=legacy) were never remounted
on namespace property changes since zfs_is_mountable() returns false
for them.

Add zfs_mount_setattr() which uses mount_setattr(2) to selectively
update only the mount flags that correspond to the changed property.
For legacy datasets, /proc/mounts is iterated to update all
mountpoints. On kernels without mount_setattr (ENOSYS), non-legacy
datasets fall back to a full remount; legacy mounts are skipped to
avoid clobbering temporary flags.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Motin <alexander.motin@TrueNAS.com>
Signed-off-by: Ameer Hamza <ahamza@ixsystems.com>
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OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD.

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