From: rune <sujian@umcloud.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 08:25:17 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: doc: add pre-requisite to enable CephFS snapshot
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doc: add pre-requisite to enable CephFS snapshot
Signed-off-by: Jian Su <sujian@umcloud.com>
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diff --git a/doc/dev/cephfs-snapshots.rst b/doc/dev/cephfs-snapshots.rst
index 67e680dedbd..6069ce57c30 100644
--- a/doc/dev/cephfs-snapshots.rst
+++ b/doc/dev/cephfs-snapshots.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ Important Data Structures
 
 Creating a snapshot
 -------------------
+Because CephFS snapshot currently is an experimental feature, we are supposed 
+to enable it explicitly by the command below before testing.
+
+.. code::
+
+       $ ceph fs set <fs_name> allow_new_snaps true --yes-i-really-mean-it
+
+
 To make a snapshot on directory "/1/2/3/foo", the client invokes "mkdir" on
 "/1/2/3/foo/.snap" directory. This is transmitted to the MDS Server as a
 CEPH_MDS_OP_MKSNAP-tagged `MClientRequest`, and initially handled in