On Thu, 8 May 2008, Mark Shellenbaum wrote:

> we already have the ability to allow users to create/destroy snapshots
> over NFS.  Look at the ZFS delegated administration model.  If all you
> want is snapshot creation/destruction then you will need to grant
> "snapshot,mount,destroy" permissions.
>
> then on the NFS client mount go into .zfs/snapshot and do mkdir
> <snapname>.  Providing the user has the appropriate permission the
> snapshot will be created.
>
> rmdir can be used to remove the snapshot.

Now that is just uber-cool.

Can you do that through the in kernel CIFS server too?


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