auto-mounting ZFS snapshots

Patrick Proniewski patpro at patpro.net
Mon Dec 6 20:20:52 UTC 2010


Freddie, JHell, you posted the same answer to my question, so I make a group reply ;)

On 6 déc. 2010, at 18:27, jhell wrote:

> Unless I am misunderstanding what you are trying to do here. ZFS snapshots are already mounted automatically under:
> 
> /path/to/mountpoint/.zfs/snapshot/{snapname}
> 
> A normal unprivileged user can access that information at any time without
> the extra use of amd(8).

That's great news. I was doing this because I was following the freebsd-snapshot documentation (<http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/snapshot/>).

I can unload amd and get rid of it's config file then.
Thank you very much.

patpro


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