Jason's Notes

If you want ZFS’s snapshots to show up as previous versions in Windows File Shares you need to have ZFS backed, samba data set with 1 or more snapshots. My zfs data set is tank in my examples. A snapshot can be made manually or automatically. The easy way to manage automatic snapshots is to use ‘zfs-auto-snapshot’ that is bundled with zfsonlinux. Example for hourly snapshots of the tank.
zfs-auto-snapshot -l hourly tank
Or you can use cron to do hourly snapshots for you.
5 */1 * * * zfs snapshot tank@`date +%F-%H%M`
Also cron can clean up old snapshots. (Careful with this one. Verify zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot -r tank | head -n 24 output first)
30 0 * * * zfs list -H -o name -t snapshot -r tank | head -n 24 | xargs -n1 sudo zfs destroy

Lastly to have samba to use ZFS snapshots you’ll need shadow: format, vfs objects, shadow: sort, and shadow: snapdir added to your samba share. Here is example config with if using zfs-auto-snapshot hourly.
[tank]

shadow: format = zfs-auto-snap_hourly-%F-%H%M
vfs objects = shadow_copy2
shadow: sort = desc
path = /tank
comment = ZFS dataset with Previous Versions enabled
writeable = yes
public = yes
shadow: snapdir = .zfs/snapshot