<span class="since">Since 0.4.1</span>
</dd>
<dt><code>permissions</code></dt>
- <dd>Provides information about the default permissions to use
- when creating volumes. This is currently only useful for directory
- or filesystem based pools, where the volumes allocated are simple
- files. For pools where the volumes are device nodes, the hotplug
- scripts determine permissions. It contains 4 child elements. The
+ <dd>This is currently only useful for directory or filesystem based
+ pools, which are mapped as a directory into the local filesystem
+ namespace. It provides information about the permissions to use for the
+ final directory when the pool is built. The
<code>mode</code> element contains the octal permission set. The
<code>owner</code> element contains the numeric user ID. The <code>group</code>
element contains the numeric group ID. The <code>label</code> element