Andy Lubel wrote: > 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 > > Great stuff! > > I confirmed that it does work, but its strange that I don't see the snapshot > in 'zfs list' on the zfs box. Is that a bug or a feature? Im using XP - > another thing is that if you right click in the .zfs/snapshot directory and > do new -> folder you will be stuck with a snapshot called "New Folder". I > couldn't rename it and the only way to delete it was to log into the machine > and do a lil 'rm -Rf'. good news is that it is snapshotting :) > > I have a simple backup script where I use robocopy and then at the end I want > to do a 'mkdir .zfs/snapshot/xxx', but I would eventually want to delete the > oldest snapshot, similar to the zsnap.pl script floating around. > > Cant wait to try this on NFS, the whole reason we objected to snapshots in > the first place in our org was because our admins didn't want to be involved > with the users for the routine of working with snapshots. > > -Andy >
If you want to be able to rename the snapshots then you will need to also hand out "rename,create" permission. Then after windows creates the "New Folder" you can rename it to something else. You can also rename it from the server by doing a "mv" command in .zfs/snapshot I created this bug to address the issue with the space character 6700649 zfs_ctldir snapshot creatation issue with CIFS clients -Mark _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
