diff --git a/src/driver/controller-zfs/index.js b/src/driver/controller-zfs/index.js
index 7017c12..81e9adf 100644
--- a/src/driver/controller-zfs/index.js
+++ b/src/driver/controller-zfs/index.js
@@ -1471,6 +1471,20 @@ class ControllerZfsBaseDriver extends CsiBaseDriver {
     // NOTE: -f does NOT allow deletes if dependent filesets exist
     // NOTE: -R will recursively delete items + dependent filesets
     // delete dataset
+    // Unmount explicitly before destroying. `zfs destroy -f` forces the
+    // unmount via umount2(MNT_FORCE), which LXC's default seccomp profile
+    // rejects (`reject_force_umount`), so on a containerised ZFS host every
+    // delete of a mounted dataset fails with "cannot unmount ... unmount
+    // failed" and never recovers. A plain unmount is permitted there.
+    //
+    // Best-effort: a dataset that is a zvol, already unmounted, or absent has
+    // nothing to unmount, and any real problem still surfaces from destroy.
+    try {
+      await zb.zfs.unmount(datasetName, { idempotent: true });
+    } catch (err) {
+      // fall through to destroy, which reports the actionable error
+    }
+
     try {
       await GeneralUtils.retry(
         12,
diff --git a/src/utils/zfs.js b/src/utils/zfs.js
index a26db89..0ad04b2 100644
--- a/src/utils/zfs.js
+++ b/src/utils/zfs.js
@@ -1445,6 +1445,53 @@ class Zetabyte {
        * @param {*} dataset
        * @param {*} property
        */
+      /**
+       * zfs unmount [-f] filesystem|mountpoint
+       *
+       * Deliberately does NOT support -f. A forced unmount issues
+       * umount2(MNT_FORCE), which LXC's default seccomp profile rejects
+       * (`reject_force_umount`), so it fails with EPERM on containerised ZFS
+       * hosts. A plain unmount is permitted there and is sufficient.
+       *
+       * @param {*} dataset
+       * @param {*} options
+       */
+      unmount: function (dataset, options = {}) {
+        if (!(arguments.length >= 1)) throw Error("Invalid arguments");
+
+        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+          const idempotent =
+            "idempotent" in options
+              ? options.idempotent
+              : "idempotent" in zb.options
+              ? zb.options.idempotent
+              : false;
+
+          let args = [];
+          args.push("unmount");
+          args.push(dataset);
+
+          zb.exec(
+            zb.options.paths.zfs,
+            args,
+            { timeout: zb.options.timeout },
+            function (error, stdout, stderr) {
+              if (
+                error &&
+                !(
+                  idempotent &&
+                  (stderr.includes("not currently mounted") ||
+                    stderr.includes("not a mountpoint") ||
+                    stderr.includes("dataset does not exist"))
+                )
+              )
+                return reject(zb.helpers.zfsError(error, stderr));
+              return resolve(stdout);
+            }
+          );
+        });
+      },
+
       inherit: function (dataset, property) {
         if (arguments.length != 2) throw Error("Invalid arguments");