Hi Craig > I have a couple of issues and questions, and I am happy to raise bugs > for them if you havent seen them before. > > 1. I have created a volume, and told it to share LVM snapshots. I > can't > see a share for the one I created manually. Also, the first snapshot > that ran on schedule was called 'snapshots.storage.data.sched0.share > 1970-01-01 11.59.59' (note date). The second one seems to have the > correct data.
This is due to a change from LVM1 to LVM2 which doesn't make the snapshot time available in the file's stat(). This one and bug #248 are related. Please wait till we fix it.. you can add yourself to the CC list at: https://project.openfiler.com/tracker/ticket/248 > > 2. I don't seem to be using the samba vfs module for shadow copies, as > per https://project.openfiler.com/tracker/ticket/123 - do I have to do > something special to get it? Please wait for #248 to get fixed as you'll only be able to use it after that. You may need Microsoft's shadow copy client on the client machines: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/winsrvr/shadowcopyclient.mspx > 3. I like what NetApp filers do - you can, inside a share, go to > \\foo\~snapshot\ (which doesn't show up by default) and get the > snapshot > directories there. Is this possible? Like Openfiler! Do not like other things. We thought about it, but it's a bad idea to do this due to possible naming conflicts. We are not just going to do it "because Netapp does it" or other companies for that matter as others seem to use this approach too. The read-only shares approach was decided by us to be the best method to export shares within a snapshotted volume. This works nicely, there are no conflicts and we have customers using this in large installations. All the snapshot shares show up in the list of shares (which we think is a good idea). It would be arrogant of us to say one size fits all, but we don't really like the subdir-of-share method. > > #include <standard-disclaimer.h> > My email client broke down and cried when it saw this.. :) nice play on words.. on the other hand, I don't know why many companies insist on adding legally useless junk to clutter otherwise meaningful emails. Mukund _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
