On Friday, July 2, 2010, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
> you change perms of the parent, then the deleted data is suddenly exposed to > people who should never have had access to it. > > Permission can be granted to the data, after the delete, which was never > granted before. Ah, that is a different problem. I hadn't understood until Noe. I guess there has to be a solution since that would have made the system unusable and they've been in business a long time :-) > >> >> ... >> >> You can disable the ability for people to view snapshots until the >> ... > > You are right that the problem could be fixed by sacrificing all the > snapshots that contained the private data. But I didn't know until you said > so, about disabling access to the snapshots. > > But if you prevent access to the snapshots, doesn't that *almost* make the > snapshot as useless as deleting the snapshot? Now the snapshot can only be > used by root, so it's basically for backups only, or for restoring user > things with administrator assistance. In the 15 years that I've been using NetApps I've never had that issue. If once in those 15 years I had to turn off access to snapshots for a month, I'd say it was worth it. Tom -- http://EverythingSysadmin.com -- my blog http://www.TomOnTime.com -- my advice _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
