ZFS sharing over SMB
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone else had encountered the same problem that I
have when sharing ZFS pools over Samba:
I have a ZFS pool with several sub-pools on it, all of which, at the
moment have the same properties, which I include below.
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
shares type filesystem -
shares creation Sat Oct 22 23:44 2011 -
shares used 518G -
shares available 1.50T -
shares referenced 50.9K -
shares compressratio 1.00x -
shares mounted yes -
shares quota none default
shares reservation none default
shares recordsize 128K default
shares mountpoint /shares default
shares sharenfs off default
shares checksum on default
shares compression off default
shares atime on default
shares devices on default
shares exec on default
shares setuid on default
shares readonly off default
shares jailed off default
shares snapdir visible local
shares aclmode groupmask default
shares aclinherit restricted default
shares canmount on default
shares shareiscsi off default
shares xattr off temporary
shares copies 1 default
shares version 3 -
shares utf8only off -
shares normalization none -
shares casesensitivity sensitive -
shares vscan off default
shares nbmand off default
shares sharesmb off default
shares refquota none default
shares refreservation none default
shares primarycache all default
shares secondarycache all default
shares usedbysnapshots 0 -
shares usedbydataset 50.9K -
shares usedbychildren 518G -
shares usedbyrefreservation 0 -
I have a script running as a cronjob which does rotating snapshots. On
all of the sub pools, there are daily and weekly snapshots, but on two
of the pools, there are hourly snapshots as well.
When sharing the snapshots over SMB to a windows 7 desktop, there are
certain subfolders in the sub-pools that are heavily snapshotted that
show multiple folders - I haven't tried to count them all, but it seems
that each folder is duplicated about as many times as there are
snapshots. I have no problem accessing these folders, and weirdly this
does not affect the entire sub-pool, just random folders within it.
I'm running Debian kFreebsd 6.0.3, with ZFS verison 8. It is running on
an AMD Fusion board, although I'm not convinced that should make a
difference.
It may be that this is a windows problem, I only ask as I am looking to
deploy this set up, and want to iron out the kinks. Cheers if you can
help, no worries if not.
Thanks
Jon Marshall
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