[cifs-discuss] shadow copy support?

[Barry Greenberg]

Paul B. Henson wrote:
> With the recent (unexpected yet sweet) announcement that Sun is offering
> official support for openSolaris, we are evaluating migrating our current
> ZFS file services prototype from S10U5 to openSolaris.
>
> One feature Samba currently has that the in kernel CIFS server lacks is
> support for shadow copies, mapping ZFS snapshots to the Windows shadow copy
> client interface.
>
> I understand this is currently a feature request for openSolaris. Out of
> curiosity, is anyone actively working on this, or is there a potential
> timeline for its availability?
>
>   

Yes, it's being worked right now.    We don't yet have a date for 
availability but hope it
will be soon.

--bg