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From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Request for Review: UFS2 Snapshot Management Environment
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> ...
>> | $ cat /snap/home:hourly.1/rse/foo.txt /snap/home:hourly.0/rse/foo.txt 
>> foo.txt
>
> Now you just need to hack sys/kern/vfs_lookup.c to do the right 
> thing when you ask for /path/.snapshot.

I recently set up a FreeBSD 5.3 box running Samba to hold all of our 
Windows users home directories.  I've already had to restore a few 
files from the daily backups because somebody hosed their files in one 
way or another.  Having hourly snapshots like this will be great. 
Currently I will have to set up special Samba access to the snapshot 
area which will make using them a bit harder, but having a '.snapshot' 
directory inside each directory would be ideal.  Great work!