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On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:35 PM, David Magda wrote:

> Is there something specific you're looking to do? The file system  
> layer of ZFS (the "ZPL") is in flux, but there may be other  
> components (e.g., DMU) that may be more stable (the Lustre folks are  
> coding against it in user land). See pages 7 and 8 for the three  
> main layers:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf


I see... Not rocket science actually. Just the standard functionality  
of zfs(8) without resorting to ugly execve and text parsing, something  
more reliable to list snapshots, etc.

Maybe it's a matter of waiting...


Borja.