By default, CIFS users cannot see the .snapshot directory. Use the
cifs.show_snapshot option to see the .snapshot directory. For more details, see the na_options(1)
manual (man) page.
To CIFS users, the
.snapshot directory appears only at the root of a share. For
example, if a user’s home directory is a share named
bill that corresponds to the
/vol/vol0/home/bill directory, only the
/vol/vol0/home/bill/.snapshot directory is
visible. When this user displays the contents of the home directory, the
.snapshot
directory is displayed as
~snapshot if the operating system supports long file
names and as
~SNAPSHT if the operating system supports only short file names.
Note: The .snapshot directory can be made visible in a directory listing or Windows
Explorer display if the client operating system is configured to show hidden files.
In each directory within the share, a snapshot directory exists but is not visible to
clients. For example, if the client operating system supports long file names, the applications on that operating system can use the Snapshot copy at each level of
the share by using .snapshot, ~snapshot, or ~SNAPSHT as the directory name. The user cannot, however, display the directory name in any listing.
