Perhaps using a bind mount? It would look and work the same as a ordinary fs. Just need to make sure du uses one filesystem.
---- From: Ulli Horlacher <frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> -- Sent: 2017-08-22 - 18:57 ---- > On Tue 2017-08-22 (21:45), Roman Mamedov wrote: > >> It is beneficial to not have snapshots in-place. With a local directory of >> snapshots, issuing things like "find", "grep -r" or even "du" will take an >> inordinate amount of time and will produce a result you do not expect. > > Netapp snapshots are invisible for tools doing opendir()/readdir() > One could simulate this with symlinks for the snapshot directory: > store the snapshot elsewhere (not inplace) and create a symlink to it, in > every directory. > > >> Personally I prefer to have a /snapshots directory on every FS > > My users want the snapshots locally in a .snapshot subdirectory. > Because Netapp do it this way - for at least 20 years and we have a > multi-PB Netapp storage environment. > No chance to change this. > > -- > Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung > Rechenzentrum TIK > Universitaet Stuttgart E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de > Allmandring 30a Tel: ++49-711-68565868 > 70569 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ > REF:<20170822214531.44538589@natsu> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
