auto-mounting ZFS snapshots

[Freddie Cash]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Patrick Proniewski <patpro at patpro.net> wrote:
> I'm using freebsd-snapshot to create/destroy a bunch of daily/weekly snapshots
> of my ZFS datasets.
> I would like to make the automount work, so I've configured amd
> accordingly, but strangely it fails:

FreeBSD automounts the "hidden" .zfs filesystem hierarchy where
snapshots are "stored" automatically.  No need for amd.

# zfs set snapdir=visible poolname/fsname
# cd /path/to/fsname/.zfs/snapshot
# ls
# cd snapshot-name

Even a simple "ls
/path/to/fsname/.zfs/snapshot/snapshot-name/somedir/" will cause it to
be mounted.

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Freddie Cash
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