[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, July 12, 2013 11:29 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> 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.
>

Time to rewrite the scripts. This makes it way easier to manage 
snapshots when you have over 2k snapshot per dataset. I've already 
resorted to referencing one dataset's snapshots with ls since zfs list 
takes forever. Thanks for letting us know about this. zfs just got even 
better.