[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-07-11 07:25 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-07-12 02:43, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>> The FSRVP could initiate a snapshot from the windows machine.  Right now
>> the windows machine consumes snapshots via the previous versions from
>> snapshots initiated on the zfs side.
>
>
> I see. Well, it is different from what I meant, and a standardized
> protocol is good for interop and interface (sometime...) ;)
>
> On a side note, you can always make ZFS snapshots via filesystem
> interface "mkdir $dataset/.zfs/snapshot/$snapname" over both NFS
> and CIFS (at least kCIFS) as well as locally, as long as your user
> has proper ZFS delegated permissions. Removing is trickier, since
> tools insist on only deleting empty directories, and somehow they
> fail to delete contents of a read-only snapshot... bummer ;)
>

That is very cool Jim, I didn't know I could create a snapshot that way.

Have a great day!

Geoff