On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Alastair Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been working on providing user serviceable snap shots and I am > confused by the documentation about allowing access from windows explorer: > >> For snapshots to be accessible from windows, below 2 options can be used. A) >> The glusterfs plugin for samba should give the option "snapdir-entry-path" >> while starting. The option is an indication to glusterfs, that samba is >> loading it and the value of the option should be the path that is being used >> as the share for windows. Ex: Say, there is a glusterfs volume and a >> directory called "export" from the root of the volume is being used as the >> samba share, then samba has to load glusterfs with this option as well. >> ret = glfs_set_xlator_option(fs, "*-snapview-client", >> "snapdir-entry-path", "/export"); >> The xlator option "snapdir-entry-path" is not exposed via volume set >> options, cannot be changed from CLI. Its an option that has to be provded at >> the time of mounting glusterfs or when samba loads glusterfs. > > > How do you set "snapdir-entry-path", the docs say it needs to be set for the > gluster-cifs pluginto correctly pass the information the client so I is there > must be some volume setting and gluster volume set command to configure this? >
Only performing gluster volume set features.show-snapshot-directory on is enough. This documentations needs to be changed. Details about snapdir-entry-path is required only for developers. > > Thanks, Alastair > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
