[Samba] Samba 3.4.2 with Solaris ZFS Snaphots

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:05:07AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > JCD> Hi,
> > JCD> I'm trying to make samba working with Solaris ZFS Snaphots.
> > 
> > JCD> Solaris 10 is running on a x64/X86 box which is both Samba (3.4.2) 
> > JCD> server and Zfs server.
> > JCD> I created home/delaye filesystem with home zfs pool.
> > .....
> > ....
> > JCD> Can anyone help to troubleshoot this? Does anybody have a running setup 
> > JCD> for Solaris zfs snapshots ?
> > 
> > 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.

Volker
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