Yep it is, I just discovered it...
But *it's not mentioned in the Release Notes, *despite being something
many people have asked for for a long time...
I''ll fire up my 9.4 sim and will check Diag Mode. It's probably not in
Advanced Mode, since it's not mentioned in the 9.4 Man Pages (and they
DO contain Advanced Mode stuff...)
Sebastian
On 19/02/04 4:57 PM, Parisi, Justin wrote:
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> It’s in 9.5:
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> aff::*> version
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> NetApp Release 9.5: Thu Dec 13 16:18:04 UTC 2018
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> aff::*> nfs modify -v3-hide-snapshot
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> enabled disabled
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> Not sure about 9.4. Did you go into diag/advanced mode?
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> *Subject:* Hide Snapshots from NFS clients
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> Hi All,
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>
> I'm teaching a SMB/NFS combo at the moment, and the question again
> came up, how to hide ".snapshot" from NFS users/scripts (like in the
> 7-Mode days).
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> In the Man Pages I found
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> *[ -v3-hide-snapshot {enabled|disabled} ] - Hide Snapshot
> Directory under NFSv3 Mount Point*
> This optional parameter specifies whether to hide the .snapshot
> directory while listing under NFSv3 mount
> points. However an explicit access to the .snapshot directory will
> still be allowed even though the option is
> enabled. The default setting is disabled at the time of creation.
>
> (I checked, it's not in 9.4)
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>
> Greetings from Munich
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>
> Sebastian
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> NAI (NetApp Instructor)
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> _________________________________________________
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> Jeremy asked Feb 5, 2016:
>
> In 7-mode we are able to make snapshots accessible, but invisible
> to NFSv3 clients.
>
> In this mode there is a .snapshot directory, but if you ‘ls’ that
> directory it appears empty. However, if you ls .snapshot/hourly.0
> say then you can see that the snapshot is in fact there.
>
> We now have an 8.3.1 CDOT filer and have not been able to work out
> how to reproduce the behaviour. The snapshots are either
> accessible and visible (which causes problems for programs which
> walk the tree) or not accessible at all.…
>