On 2/27/07, Eric Haycraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am no scripting pro, but I would imagine it would be fairly simple to create a script and batch it to make symlinks in all subdirectories.
I've done something similar using NFS aggregation products. The real problem is when you export, especially via CIFS (SMB) from a given directory. Let's take a given example of a division based file tree. A given area of the company, say marketing, has multiple sub folders: /pool/marketing, /pool/marketing/docs, /pool/marketing/projects, /pool/marketing/users Well, Marketing wants Windows access, so you allow shares at any point, including at /pool/marketing/users. Well, symlinks don't help, and a snapshot mechanism needs to be there at the users subdirectory level. Some would argue to promote /pool/marketing/users into a ZFS filesystem. Well, the other problem arises, in that at least with NFS, you need to share per filesystem and clients must multiple mount the filesystem (/pool/marketing, /pool/marketing/users, /pool/marketing/docs, etc). Mounting /pool/marketing alone will show you empty directories for users, projects, etc if further mounting doesn't exist. Yeah.. automounts, nfsv4, blah blah :) A lot of setup when all you need is pervasive ".snapshot" trees similar to NetApp. I just hope that don't have a bloody patent on something as simple as that to solve this.
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