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Snapshots can be accessed by any user with the appropriate permissions. Every
directory in the filers active file system contains a directory named .snapshot,
through which users can access old versions of files in that directory. How users gain
access to snapshots depends on the file-sharing protocol used: NFS or CIFS.
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Figure 9-3 shows the directory structure on a client with the vol0 volume of a filer
named filer mounted on /n/filer.
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In this example, the client can obtain access to snapshots by way of /n/filer/.snap-
shot. This might seem to contradict the explanation of snapshot access in the
preceding section, because it shows a .snapshot directory only at the mount point
instead of in every directory in the tree.
Actually, the .snapshot directory in the mount point is real to make the pwd com-
mand work, whereas the .snapshot directories in all other directories are magic;
that is, can be accessed when they are referenced by name but do not show up in a
directory listing.
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