zfs snapdir: from hidden to visible and back again

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 16 20:50:19 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 04:07:29PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 14/11/2008 14:37 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> > Also, even with snapdir=hidden, I still can list snapshots (their
> > contents) if I ls full path with .zfs in it.
> > Is this right?
> 
> And it seems that any snapshot accessed in this way gets automatically
> added to mounts. This doesn't seem to be reasonable.
> 
> For example, periodic security script would report suid binaries found
> in these snapshots, etc.

Everything you described is expected behaviour.

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