Hi,

yes - just use ln -s from a NFS client
the other option would be to use mklink.exe from a SMB2 client or other 3rd party tools that use that SMB2 call

yes, SnapSure and Quotas will work just fine

no restrictions that I know of

There is a difference between SMB and SMB2 clients when it comes to delete a symlink - an "old" SMB client will delete just the symlink, a SMB2 will delete the actual target

cd into the root of your fs01 (from linux, f.e. CS)
do a
# ln -s ../fs02 fs02

thats it for the symlink

One of the drawbacks is backup and restore. A NDMP backup of fs01 does not follow this link and will not backup fs02.
In case of the restore, you will have to restore from the fs02 backup, even when users access the data using the fs01 share.

Regards
Peter

Thank you guys.

Rainer,

So Vista is considered an SMB2 client, how would i prevent a user from deleting symlink and blowing away data on fs02, just lock symlink down with NTFS permissions ?

probably

I think this is the natural behaviour for Windows symlinks but havent tried them on a Windows box

Note that there seems to be a difference about junctions, hard links and softlinks

google for fsutil - there is a number of setting that can be done on the Vista client

Vista and Win2008 will only connect with SMB2 if you have specifically enabled SMB2 on the Celerra

So i tested this in Celerra simulator:

fs01 on /root_vdm_1/CIFS
fs03 on /root_vdm_1/CIFS2

i created my symlink that points to CIFS2, i can browse to it within windows explorer great. Now i created a folder with a couple of files in CIFS2 directory, created a couple of snapshots, right click on my test folder, properties, Previous versions ...and it's empty. I have to use testfolder\.ckpt to see snapshots that were created for fs03. Is that normal ?

I am not sure how its supposed to work - I suggest to open a service request

Have you seen the section in the CIFS manual that talks about symbolic links and SMB2 ?

And the params for symbolic links ?

export the target share and enable the R2R using fsutil.

Using symlinks and CIFS clients