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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:20:50 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
Cc:        "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: protecting zfs snapshot info
Message-ID:  <b911a1d7-02ae-c16e-2534-f7b1b44215f7@sentex.net>
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On 8/14/2017 8:57 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 8/14/2017 2:47 AM, Borja Marcos wrote:
>>
>>> On 12 Aug 2017, at 19:14, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way in zfs to protect non root users from seeing snapshots ?

>> Good question and it’s a problem indeed. The .zfs directory is always created
>> and it can be hidden but it’s still accessible. It’s a security problem that prevents
>> an effective access revocation for a directory/file, I guess that’s what you mean.
> 
> Yes, something like an extra option
> hidden | visible | unmounted

I did come across this thread

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/3963

but it seems Linux specific or at least I dont see how its done on FreeBSD.

	---Mike



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