Re: netapp-alike snapshots?

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On Sat 2017-09-09 (22:43), Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

> > Your tool does not create .snapshot subdirectories in EVERY directory like
> 
> Neither does NetApp. Those "directories" are magic handles that do not
> really exist.

I know.
But symbolic links are the next close thing (I am not a kernel programmer).


> Apart from obvious problem with recursive directory traversal (NetApp
> .snapshot are not visible with normal directory list)

Yes, they are, at least sometimes, eg tar includes the snapshots.


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