Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:53:19 +0800 From: Denny Lin <dennylin93@hs.ntnu.edu.tw> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: unable to pwd in ZFS snapshot Message-ID: <20101226115318.GB84868@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <E1PWopX-000A1z-5G@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1PWkzd-0006J0-OC@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <20101226073156.GA84868@mail.hs.ntnu.edu.tw> <E1PWmXV-00085C-NK@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <91EDEEE8-215F-438D-923E-12A75F7B2C88@verweg.com> <E1PWopX-000A1z-5G@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 01:32:03PM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > > On 26 Dec 2010, at 10:05, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:26:13AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > >> Setting snapdir to visible should fix this right away: > > >> # zfs set snapdir=visible tank/foo > > >> > > > it did indeed! > > > any reason why this should not be the default behaviour? > > > > Personally, I want to have the snapshot, but not see the directory otherwise so that > > it doesn't get scooped up by rsync et al inadvertently > > btw, why use rsync if 'zfs send| zfs recv' work realy nice? If I wanted to rsync the contents of /path/to/foo/ to another computer, rsync would unintenionally pick up the contents of /path/to/foo/.zfs/, so it's best to have .zfs hidden most of the time. Other commands such as cp should also have this problem. -- Denny Lin
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