shadow_copy2_realpath() snapshot path component removal

David Disseldorp ddiss at suse.de
Wed Feb 12 07:01:11 MST 2014


On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:57:39 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> > Do you recall whether there was something at a protocol level that
> > required this behaviour, or was it done to avoid wide link checks
> > so that snapshots could reside outside of the base share?  
> 
> It's the latter if I remember correctly. This allows
> snapshots outside the share root with proper wide links
> checks still in place.

Thanks for the clarification!


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