On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 08:59:29PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > ln -s .zfs/snapshot snapshots > > > > > > Voila. All Windows or Mac or Linux or whatever users are able to > > > easily access snapshots.
Not being a CIFS user, could you clarify/confirm for me.. is this just a "presentation" issue, ie making a directory icon appear in a gooey windows explorer (or mac or whatever equivalent) view for people to click on? The windows client could access the .zfs/snapshot dir via typed pathname if it knows to look, or if it's made visible, yes? Otherwise, is there some other limitation because of the pathname starting with dot that prevents this, which the symlink works around? > There's no problem with the symlink being followed by CIFS clients, > including windows. It just appears as if it's a normal directory that you > can look inside. > > If anybody were trying to backup the ZFS root directory via CIFS, and didn't > have the ability (or intelligence) to exclude the snapshots directory, sure > it could be a problem. But I certainly know I don't have that problem. I > promise you will never catch me creating backups of ZFS via CIFS. ;-) Never say never.. -- Dan.
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