Re-reading your question is occurs to me that you might be referring to the ability to mount a snapshot on *another server* ?
There's no built-in feature in zfs for that, but a workaround would be to do what I just detailed, with the additional step of exporting that cloned snapshot to the other server via NFS. /dale On Jun 27, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Dale Ghent wrote: > On Jun 27, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: > >> Hi all ; >> >> There are two tinhs that some customers are asking for constantly >> about ZFS. >> >> Ability to mount snap shots somewhere else. [this doesnt look easy, >> perhaps a proxy kind of set up ? > > This feature has been in ZFS since day 1. You would promote a > snapshot to a clone, and mount that clone where ever you wish: > > 1) Create the snapshot: > zfs snapshot somepool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2) Promote the snapshot to a file system, which would be mounted at / > somepool/snap: > zfs clone somepool/[EMAIL PROTECTED] somepool/snap > > 3) Optionally mount that cloned snapshot somewhere else: > zfs set mountpoint=/snapshot somepool/snap > > /dale _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
