From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 29 22:07:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86214106566B for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:07:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAD78FC12 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.152] (helo=smtp20.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmvDW-0000iX-S8 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:07:38 +0200 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp20.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QmvDW-0005J6-5a for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:07:38 +0200 Received: from [192.168.11.37] (192.168.11.37) by yanta (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 36E873; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:08:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4E332F2F.80102@nagual.nl> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:07:43 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4E32FB61.2040504@nagual.nl> <07b77b11931ca49fd88c4671605d4403.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <07b77b11931ca49fd88c4671605d4403.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QmvDW-0005J6-5a X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.247, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, CM_META_TB_NOARR 0.50, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D 0.67, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: dick@nagual.nl X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: MC and snapshots X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:07:42 -0000 Op 29-7-2011 22:14, Daniel Staal schreef: > On Fri, July 29, 2011 2:26 pm, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> Can one of you tell me why it is not possible to browse .zfs directories >> (from snapshots) with midnight commander? I'm running FreeBSD-8.2 w/ mc >> from ports. >> Manually switching to .zfs and it's subdirectories does show the >> snapshotted files, but I would like to be able to browse them (its so >> much easier). > I know that the snapshots aren't mounted by default. (And are > mounted/unmounted on the fly if needed.) That's probably part of it, at > least. > > Have you tried setting the 'snapdir' property to 'visible'? I don't know > that would help, but it'd be worth trying. I *can* go to the snapshots and see the files. I even can copy one or more of them to the live system. However, the moment I try to do this from within Midnight Commander I'm kicked out of the snapshot directory right into the root of the live filesystem. That way not able to manipulated snapshot files.