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We've been fooling around with the shadow copy module lately, and have more or less made it easy for users of our package to export filesystems with snapshots via samba; see our recipe at http://zumastor.googlecode.com/svn/branches/0.8/doc/zumastor-howto.html#_export_a_zumastor_volume_via_samba And we've successfully accessed the snapshots from Windows clients. Question: how to access the snapshots from Linux cifs clients? One would expect the @GMT... directories to be visible in the top of th...

At the beginning of August, Mikulas Patocka posted to linux-kernel mailing list about adding snapshot merging to LVM[1]. Basicaly, snapshot merging means that it is possible to turn a snapshot back into its origin. Using LVM, however, means that you need to have free place outside of the filesystem (i.e., in physical volume) to make snapshots, which is not always possible on workstations and