Because it means you can create zfs snapshots from a non solaris/non local client...

Like a linux nfs client, or a windows cifs client.

T

dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:34:53 -0700
Roman V Shaposhnik <r...@sun.com> wrote:

On the read-write front: wouldn't it be cool to be able to snapshot
things by:
    $ mkdir .zfs/snapshot/<snap-name>

I've followed this thread but I fail to see the advantages of this. I
guess I miss something here. Can you explain to me why the above would
be better (nice to have) then "zfs create whate...@now?"

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