On 22/04/2010 00:14, Jason King wrote:
It still has the issue that the end user has to know where the root of
the filesystem is in the tree (assuming it's even accessible on the
system -- might not be for an NFS mount).

For CIFS ZFS provides the Volume Shadow Service (Previous Versions in Windows Explorer).

See this blog entry for pictures of how this looks to a Windows user:

http://blogs.sun.com/amw/entry/using_the_previous_versions_tab

For (local) OpenSolaris clients the Nautilus file browser works "as if" the snapshots were visible in each directory - click the little clock icon that is between refresh and home. This only works locally though not over NFS.

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Darren J Moffat
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