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2005 Nov 20
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Shadow copy format for snapshots and Samba
...way you can read about the format of the link here: http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/VFS.html#id2618182 When it was working on FreeBSD, it was really slick and windows users could right-click and see the previous versions. Anyway the idea is simple -- add an option "shadowcopylinks" to zfs, and when a snapshot is created (and snapdir==visible), then do a symlink(? -- maybe something lower) from the .zfs/snapshot/snapname to @GMT-$time (time format documented in the above link -- and it must be GMT). Of course the symlink/whatever would get removed when the snapshot is r...