[...]

>>  Mount the nfs share on osol server, inside a zpool.  Do whatever is
>>  the correct way on zfs to create a snapshot of that mounted data
>>  and write it onto another directory also inside the zpool.
>>
>>  A week later mount the same nfs share from remote linux machine and
>>  create a second snapshot written to the same other directory.

[...]

>>  So proceeding in that manner, I'd have a series of snapshots were I
>>  could trace any differences in files?
>
> Won't work.
> The filesystem you mount is not a zfs filesystem.
> The mountpoint can be in a zfs in a zpool, but that doesn't
> make it a zfs.

Gack... I was afraid of that... it sounded way to easy

Thanks for the input... I guess I'll have to wait and see what is
resolved in the other thread about what happens when you rsync data to
a zfs filesystem and how that inter plays with zfs snapshots going on too.

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