diff --git a/cmd/zfs/zfs_main.c b/cmd/zfs/zfs_main.c
index 9357bd2f38aa..634303f80992 100644
--- a/cmd/zfs/zfs_main.c
+++ b/cmd/zfs/zfs_main.c
@@ -6580,8 +6580,25 @@ share_mount_one(zfs_handle_t *zhp, int op, int flags, char *protocol,
 			return (1);
 		}
 
-		if (zfs_mount(zhp, options, flags) != 0)
+		if (zfs_mount(zhp, options, flags) != 0) {
+			/*
+			 * Check if a mount sneaked in after we checked
+			 */
+			if (!explicit &&
+			    libzfs_errno(g_zfs) == EZFS_MOUNTFAILED) {
+				usleep(10 * MILLISEC);
+				libzfs_mnttab_cache(g_zfs, B_FALSE);
+
+				if (zfs_is_mounted(zhp, NULL)) {
+					(void) fprintf(stderr, gettext(
+					    "Ignoring previous 'already "
+					    "mounted' error for '%s'\n"),
+					    zfs_get_name(zhp));
+					return (0);
+				}
+			}
 			return (1);
+		}
 		break;
 	}