ZFS snapdir readability (Crosspost)

[Eric Borisch]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 7:46 AM Borja Marcos <borjam at sarenet.es> wrote:

> > On 21 Nov 2019, at 13:59, Martin Simmons <martin at lispworks.com> wrote:
> > I think that is incorrect.  You can mount a snapshot on /mnt like this:
> >
> > /sbin/mount -t zfs filesystem at snapname /mnt
>
> I’ve never seen that and, indeed, on FreeBSD 12.1 it’s not possible. Or I
> am terribly
> sloppy today!
>
> Did I miss anything? Is it a new ZFS on Linux feature?
>

In a quick test, this works both on Linux and on FreeBSD running ZoF
(2019101600).
  - Eric