Bryan Henderson wrote: >> The directory is quite visible with a standard 'ls -a'. Instead, >> they simply mark it as a separate volume/filesystem: i.e. the fsid >> differs when you call stat(). The whole thing ends up acting rather like >> our bind mounts. > > Hmm. So it breaks user space quite a bit. By break, I mean uses that > work with more conventional filesystems stop working if you switch to > NetAp. Most programs that operate on directory trees willingly cross > filesystems, right? Even ones that give you an option, such as GNU cp, > don't by default. > > But if the implementation is, as described, wildly successful, that means > users are willing to tolerate this level of breakage, so it could be used > for versioning too. > > But I think I'd rather see a truly hidden directory for this (visible only > when looked up explicitly). > When I administered a bunch of netapps I remember turning the visible .snapshots off. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
