On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:33:50PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 536$ ls -al | grep .snapshot
> > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 537$ ls -al .snapshot
> > total 60
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 May 22 15:01 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 15:51 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 14:58 hourly.0
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:52 hourly.1
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 13:00 hourly.2
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 22 10:52 hourly.3
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.0
> > drwxr-xr-x 15 dscheidt dialin 8192 May 19 16:34 nightly.1
> > dscheidt@shell-2 ~ 538$
> >
> > doesn't count then? This is a directory NFS-mounted from a NetApp. The
> > .snapshot directory is a lifesaver, and support cost cutter.
>
> If the netapp doesn't honor readdir requests properly then it's
> breaking unix semantics.
>
> Netapp is broken, there's no reason to intentionally hide this
> directory from readdir.
bash$ ls -al /home/staff
total 53
drwxr-xr-x 13 root vwstaff 4096 May 16 13:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Mar 28 17:44 ..
drwxrwxrwx 10 root wheel 4096 May 23 00:00 .snapshot
Ours apparently isn't, and I have seen .snapshot dirs from shellboxes on
lots of other NetApps too.
I can't find the relevant config-option right now, if there is one.
Greetz, Peter.
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