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Date:      Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:14:08 -0400
From:      "Daniel Staal" <DStaal@usa.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MC and snapshots
Message-ID:  <07b77b11931ca49fd88c4671605d4403.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E32FB61.2040504@nagual.nl>
References:  <4E32FB61.2040504@nagual.nl>

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On Fri, July 29, 2011 2:26 pm, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> Can one of you tell me why it is not possible to browse .zfs directories
> (from snapshots) with midnight commander? I'm running FreeBSD-8.2 w/ mc
> from ports.
> Manually switching to .zfs and it's subdirectories does show the
> snapshotted files, but I would like to be able to browse them (its so
> much easier).

I know that the snapshots aren't mounted by default.  (And are
mounted/unmounted on the fly if needed.)  That's probably part of it, at
least.

Have you tried setting the 'snapdir' property to 'visible'?  I don't know
that would help, but it'd be worth trying.

Daniel T. Staal

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