From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 29 15:36:10 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E33AE1FD7 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dennis@lightandshadow.tv) Received: from mx-relay24.cloudservice.ag (mx-relay24.cloudservice.ag [46.235.240.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.antispameurope.com", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFD5E1A4C for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:36:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dennis@lightandshadow.tv) Received: from fw1.hostedoffice.ag ([81.20.90.82]) by mx-gate24.cloudservice.ag; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:35:18 +0200 Received: from EX10HUB1.hosting.inetserver.de (unknown [10.20.10.69]) by qhexrelay1.hosting.inetserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C731175CE4 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:35:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.100.153] (80.128.239.26) by mail.hostedoffice.ag (10.20.10.202) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.235.1; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:33:04 +0200 To: From: Dennis Steinkamp Subject: FreeBSD ZFS snapshots and "previous versions" Message-ID: <56FAA0B1.4000901@lightandshadow.tv> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:35:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [80.128.239.26] X-EXCLAIMER-MD-CONFIG: e299f49b-79fd-4cde-afcd-99df35de8a6e X-hostedoffice-tnef: done X-cloud-security-sender: dennis@lightandshadow.tv X-cloud-security-recipient: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-cloud-security-Virusscan: CLEAN X-cloud-security-disclaimer: This E-Mail was scanned by E-Mailservice on mx-gate24 with 3235D10C0C62 X-cloud-security-connect: fw1.hostedoffice.ag[81.20.90.82], TLS=0, IP=81.20.90.82 X-cloud-security: scantime:.1929 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:36:10 -0000 Hey guys, i apologize if this questions has been asked recently but i couldn`t find a clear answer to that, so bear with me a little here ^^ In the past i played around with ZFS, can`t say i have much experience with it but i know the "essentials" about it, i guess. ^^ When i wanted to go the ZFS route in a home environment i usually went for OmniOS + napp-it, cause i was always under the impression that you get the latest ZFS development on OmniOS after Oracle stopped caring about open-source. Furthermore, the convenience of a in kernel CIFS implementation which made zfs snapshots accessible under previous versions for windows clients was just great. But of course there is so much to like about freebsd and the last time i checked about freebsd and zfs was a couple of years ago so i am afraid i am not totally up2date. That being said i got a few questions for you guys: - Are OmniOS and FreeBSD are on the same ZFS version (or at least equal feature wise) - Am i able to build a prooduction stable zfs filer with freebsd that supports zfs snapshots for windows clients the same way OmniOS does. I did a little bit of research on this and it was a little bit vague but it seems its possible with FreeBSD and Samba4. Am i on the right track here or are there any other maybe better ways to make zfs snapshots and rollbacks easily doable for windows client machines. Thank you guys for helping me out. Dennis