Lack Mr G M wrote:
In article 364225F4.47D356C@dnrc.bell-labs.com, you write: |> |> Wouldn't this be solved if ~snapshot appeared as a shortcut in CIFS, and |> as a symbolic link in NFS?
A symbolic link to what? Something that exists, so the "problem" is still there.
No, because every program(1) in UNIX knows to skip symbolic links when traversing trees of files. I presume that the same is true for shortcuts in CIFS otherwise MS-Office's fastfind and other programs would have the same problems.
In fact, I wonder if the solution here is to turn off visible .snapshot and ~snapshot at the mointpoints and put symbolic links in the user's directory that are SNAPSHOT -> .snapshot. Or, if NetApp could have these appear as symlinks/shortcuts that would solve the problem.
--tal
(1) Every program except "cp -r", because it hasn't been updated in decades; and "find -follow", because it is supposed to follow symbolic links.