From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 12 02:16:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8202416A406 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:16:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from raven.bwct.de (raven.bwct.de [85.159.14.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1773213C45D for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de ([10.1.1.7]) by raven.bwct.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l3C2GutB042408; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:16:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [10.1.1.14]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l3C2GlgF031234 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:16:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l3C2GkBl033312; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:16:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id l3C2Gkf7033311; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:16:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:16:46 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: John Nielsen Message-ID: <20070412021645.GQ30772@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <200704112004.03903.lists@jnielsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200704112004.03903.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.4-STABLE alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on cicely12.cicely.de Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS to support chflags? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:16:58 -0000 On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:04:03PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > I just moved /usr over to a zpool on my -CURRENT system. Performance and > stability are both excellent so far. (Thanks Pawel!) However I noticed that > setting FS flags on files with chflags is not supported. Would it be > feasible to add support for flags on ZFS, and if so are there plans to do > so? > > If not (and/or in the meantime), are there any places in the base system > where flags are required for normal operation? (/var maybe?) Some binaries have such flags set, but it is not required, otherwise diskless NFS wouldn't work. I often see installworld warnings about beeing unable to set extended flags on ld.so and others on my diskless boxes. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de