Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Mark Shellenbaum wrote:
> 
>> we already have the ability to allow users to create/destroy snapshots
>> over NFS.  Look at the ZFS delegated administration model.  If all you
>> want is snapshot creation/destruction then you will need to grant
>> "snapshot,mount,destroy" permissions.
>>
>> then on the NFS client mount go into .zfs/snapshot and do mkdir
>> <snapname>.  Providing the user has the appropriate permission the
>> snapshot will be created.
>>
>> rmdir can be used to remove the snapshot.
> 
> Now that is just uber-cool.
> 
> Can you do that through the in kernel CIFS server too?
> 
> 

Yes, it works over CIFS too.



   -Mark

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