>People are oriented to their files, not to snapshots. True, though with NetApp-style snapshots, it's not that difficult to translate 'src/file.c' to '.snapshot/hourly.0/src/file.c' and see what it was like an hour ago. I imagine that a syntax like '.snapshot/22:20/src/file.c' would also be easy to use. (On the other hand, zfs currently requires knowledge of where the file system is rooted, and knowledge of where the current directory is within that filesystem, which IMHO is somewhat confusing to users and requires far too much typing.)
I don't have an answer to your question about how to find an earlier version of a file with snapshots, though given an intelligent file system, there's no reason why we couldn't have a '.version' pseudodirectory (or the like) which understood file changes and was virtually populated by analyzing differences in the snapshots. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
