Taking advice from
viewtopic.php?p=545#p545 under
the snapshot browsing example in the knowledge baseWith a ZEVO dataset for my home directory 'gjp22':
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macbookpro08-centrim:~ gjp22$ zfs list -t snapshot | grep 2012-10-01
gjp22@2012-10-01-042926 148Mi - 304Gi -
gjp22@2012-10-01-052925 124Mi - 304Gi -
gjp22@2012-10-01-062926 113Mi - 304Gi -
gjp22@2012-10-01-072925 112Mi - 304Gi -
… of the commands below, only the last one listed the contents of the (snapshot) directory.
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macbookpro08-centrim:~ gjp22$ ls ~/.zfs/snapshot/2012-10-01-042926/
macbookpro08-centrim:~ gjp22$ ls ~/.zfs/snapshot/2012-10-01-042926/
macbookpro08-centrim:~ gjp22$ ls ~/.zfs/snapshot/2012-10-01-042926/
macbookpro08-centrim:~ gjp22$ ls ~/.zfs/snapshot/2012-10-01-042926/ | less
macbookpro08-centrim:~ gjp22$ ls ~/.zfs/snapshot/2012-10-01-042926/ | less
macbookpro08-centrim:~ gjp22$ ls ~/.zfs/snapshot/2012-10-01-042926/. | less
With reference to the subject line of this topic,
Snapshots accessible without mounting them?– we should note that:
- a command line directory listing does result in a mount
- in other words, no access without mounting.
Additionally, by design:
- mount points of snapshots are not volumes at the Computer level in Finder
- mount points of snapshots are not volumes at /Volumes
- mount points of snapshots are not DEVICES in the sidebar of OS X Mountain Lion
- mount points of snapshots may be FAVORITES in the sidebar of OS X Lion or Mountain Lion.
Last but not least, this is unrelated to ZEVO and feels horribly buggy:
- Lion and Mountain Lion will lose sidebar favourites for any volume that is ejected (bug reported to Apple against Lion).