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Subject: Re: Tool to access ZFS/NFSv4 alternate data streams on FreeBSD?
From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>
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Yep.  I was just describing the experience that OS X went through in =
implementing extattrs / legacy resource fork support.  To recap it very =
briefly:  Having NFSv4 support extattrs (or even named streams, if you =
want to go that far) is the comparatively easy part.  It=92s backing =
them up / copying them around that gets more involved, and if you can=92t =
back up certain attributes then you=92re not likely to get anyone to =
want to use them, at which point the whole =93sharing=94 aspect kind of =
takes a back seat.

On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Last time this came up for discussion, Jordan Hubbard got quite =
involved
> along the lines of ``most of the work is in userland, for archive =
tools, etc``.
> I can`t remember what the mailing list thread was called, but it was =
started
> by a guy who was a ``resource fork`` advocate (associated with CERN if =
I recall),
> where they use Gbyte extended attributes.