Quoth Tom Reingold:
Let's be fair. snapshots are strange. They are links to files, but they appear to be duplicates. We had to provide our unix users with a new "du" command so it wouldn't traverse snapshots.
How could Microsoft have foreseen this problem and written their apps accordingly?
I will admit that file system theory is not that different from UNIX to PC. Therefore you are correct. My question then is: Why is this only a problem now? How were UNIX users able to manage with one default behavior all this time? Why can't the CIFS users just RTFM and configure the NetApp so that it works the way they need? NetApp is thumbing its nose at the installed base of (UNIX) users, who will now have to restore the old default configuration. Just my Microsoft rant of the day.
Regards,
David K. Drum david@more.net