On 11/05/98 11:39:35 you wrote:

On Thu, 05 Nov 1998 08:01:57 CST, David Drum david@more.net wrote:

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I find it disgusting that NetApp caters to Microsoft's ineptitude.

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?

The real problem, IMHO, is that the snapshots should be treated as their own seperate partition, and be mounted as such, rather than inserting .snapshot directories. Of course, this does make it a little more difficult to explain to the user where to go to get their files, and with NFS it necessitates lots of new mounts. You could just turn the snaps off and mount it seperately and test this yourself; I think it will work.

It also avoids the problem of copying the old file over it's newer copy with the same inode (in UNIX).

Bruce