[zfs-discuss] .zfs snapshots on subdirectories?

2009-10-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Suppose I have a storagepool: /storagepool And I have snapshots on it. Then I can access the snaps under /storagepool/.zfs/snapshots But is there any way to enable this within all the subdirs? For example, cd /storagepool/users/eharvey/some/foo/dir cd .zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] .zfs snapshots on subdirectories?

2009-10-04 Thread Trevor Pretty
Edward If you look at the man page:- snapshot A read-only version of a file system or volume at a given point in time. It is specified as filesys...@name or vol...@name. I think you've taken volume snapshots. I believe you need to make file system snapshots and each users/use

Re: [zfs-discuss] .zfs snapshots on subdirectories?

2009-10-04 Thread Trevor Pretty
OOPS just spotted you said you don't want a FS for each sub-dir :-) Trevor Pretty wrote: Edward If you look at the man page:- snapshot A read-only version of a file system or volume at a given point in time. It is specified as filesys...@name or vol...@name.

Re: [zfs-discuss] .zfs snapshots on subdirectories?

2009-10-05 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Trevor Pretty wrote: > I think you've taken volume snapshots. I believe you need to make file > system snapshots and each users/username a zfs file system. > Lets play.. Automatic .snapshot directories are a feature of NetApp filers and are pretty nice at times