[Samba] Samba 3.4.2 with Solaris ZFS Snaphots

[Ed Plese]

Hi,

Sorry for the lack of proper threading, but I wasn't subscribed to the
list at the time.

On Nov 26, 2009, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:09:16PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:05:07AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > > We are extensively using ZFS snapshots with samba, it works like a charm.
> > > >
> > > > We use the patches from http://www.edplese.com/samba-with-zfs.html
> > > > this give us freedom in naming convention
> > > > they still can be applied (manuallly) to samba-3.4.x/source3/modules/vfs_shadow_copy.c
> > >
> > > Hmmm - these patches look really interesting ! I wonder
> > > how they didn't get added into mainline source code....
> >
> > Maybe because nobody wants to touch the shadow_copy module?
> > shadow_copy2 is the one that has seen fixes lately, I have
> > some patches for shadow_copy2 that are still pending to be
> > merged upstream.

What patches are currently pending?  Do any of them eliminate the need
for some of the ZFS patches?

> Ah ok, didn't realize the difference between the two.
> Maybe we should remove the vfs_shadow_copy and concentrate
> everything on vfs_shadow_copy2 (and look at merging these
> patches).

Has anyone else started merging these patches to the shadow_copy2
module?  If not, I'll get started with it.


Ed Plese