[sheepdog-users] Mount a snapshot

[Liu Yuan]

On 03/13/2013 07:52 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> Hi all, I tried to create snapshots of a vdi and "convert" a snapshot
> to normal file by 'vdi read'.
> It works fine.
> 
> What I wish to achieve is to access file stored in the vdi snapshots
> without convert it to a regular file.
> 
> I tested qemu-nbd to mount a vdi partition and it works fine, but it
> can't access snapshots.
> 
> I tried then sheepfs, but it seems to be unusable:
>   sheepfs /tmp/sheepfs_test/
>     failed to create sheepfs layout
> 

I can't reproduce the problem. what is fs hosting /tmp/sheepfs_test/
mountpoint?

Thanks,
Yuan