Re: NFS problem with NetworkAppliance .snapshot

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
1 Nov 1998 22:20:53 +0100

ilh@sls.lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington) writes:

>Background:

>NetworkAppliance dedicated NFS servers have a snapshot capability that
>allows for quick read-only access to past versions of files and
>directories. They make this available via a hidden .snapshot directory
>in every NFS directory. I say hidden because it does not show up via ls
>(and readdir). So, "ls -a" does not show it, but "ls .snapshot" does
>list its contents, which are things like hourly.0, nightly.2, weekly.1,
>monthly.1, etc. The reason the directory is normally hidden is so that
>recursive tar's and cp's do not descend into it.

Huh? This would definitely differ from Solaris:

(Host: Ultra Enterprise 2/Solaris 2.6, Server NetApp F630/OnTap5.1)

% df -k .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
filer0s:/ 75905928 13852704 62053224 19% /mnt/filer0
% ls
.
..
.snapshot
[...]

Kind regards
Henning

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