[Samba] Samba 3.4.2 with Solaris ZFS Snaphots

[Ed Plese]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Ralf Hornik Mailings
<ralf at best.homeunix.org> wrote:
> Ed Plese <ed at edplese.com> wrote:
>> What patches are currently pending?  Do any of them eliminate the need
>> for some of the ZFS patches?
>
> Obviously none. The patches from http://www.edplese.com/samba-with-zfs.html
> do actually work with some modifications. But with 3.5 after compiling well
> the module doesn't work at all, and breaks folder sharing:
>
> [2009/12/01 14:14:55.967820,  0] smbd/service.c:1009(make_connection_snum)
>  '/data/daten' is not a directory, when connecting to [Daten]
>
>> Has anyone else started merging these patches to the shadow_copy2
>> module?  If not, I'll get started with it.
>
> Is there any documentation about this modules (resp. shadow_copy2) ? I need
> some hints how to configure e.g. the location of the snapdir, format, ...
> Regards

Yesterday, I posted a patch to the samba-technical list that works
with the shadow_copy2 module in Samba 3.4.3.  It's also available
here:

http://www.edplese.com/blog/2009/12/02/samba-shadow_copy2-enhancements/

Ed Plese