Mailing List Archive

.snapshot directories
We make extensive use of automount and each users home directory is
mounted separately. With the .snapshot directory enabled, du and find
recurse through the snapshot trees and in general this causes too many
issues for our users, so we've disabled them.

Is there any more sophisticated way of making the snapshots available
that won't cause this sort of problem (e.g. can we export the snapshots
separately? make them available as a separate CIFS share?).

Thanks,
Barrie
Re: .snapshot directories [ In reply to ]
Yes you can. The snapshots are disabled for out users, but we have created a share, called snapshots, en that is directed to

/vol/vol0/.snapshot

snapshots /vol/vol0/.snapshot
everyone / Full Control

It works great.

Reinoud
----- Original Message -----
From: <barrie_spence@agilent.com>
To: <toasters@mathworks.com>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: .snapshot directories


> We make extensive use of automount and each users home directory is
> mounted separately. With the .snapshot directory enabled, du and find
> recurse through the snapshot trees and in general this causes too many
> issues for our users, so we've disabled them.
>
> Is there any more sophisticated way of making the snapshots available
> that won't cause this sort of problem (e.g. can we export the snapshots
> separately? make them available as a separate CIFS share?).
>
> Thanks,
> Barrie
>