1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_dataset.c b/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_dataset.c
index 05a2fdc9bec0..05c99cef67fc 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_dataset.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_dataset.c
@@ -1458,6 +1458,12 @@ zfs_setprop_error(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, zfs_prop_t prop, int err,
 			    "property setting is not allowed on "
 			    "bootable datasets"));
 			(void) zfs_error(hdl, EZFS_NOTSUP, errbuf);
+		} else if (prop == ZFS_PROP_CHECKSUM ||
+		    prop == ZFS_PROP_DEDUP) {
+			(void) zfs_error_aux(hdl, dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN,
+			    "property setting is not allowed on "
+			    "root pools"));
+			(void) zfs_error(hdl, EZFS_NOTSUP, errbuf);
 		} else {
 			(void) zfs_standard_error(hdl, err, errbuf);
 		}