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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:47:18 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Simon Toedt <simon.toedt@gmail.com>, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972@gmail.com>, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>, Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de>
Subject:   Re: Tool to access ZFS/NFSv4 alternate data streams on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <B1A2A52A-E26C-435E-A8FB-9FAF2829AFEB@ixsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <220565922.34288992.1410298180362.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>
References:  <220565922.34288992.1410298180362.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>

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> On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>=20
> Hopefully others will correct me if I have this incorrect, but I =
thought
> CDDL code could only be used for optional components of FreeBSD?
> I suspect tar and friends are considered core components and that code
> for this would have to be written by someone (ie. couldn't use CDDL =
code?).
> (I'm assuming that these tools are in OpenSolaris.)

Well, if someone is willing to add copyfile(3) to FreeBSD (it does all =
the magic) then the OS X versions of tar/pax/cpio/=E2=80=A6 are just =
forked versions of the FreeBSD tools, but with copyfile(3) support for =
handling (serializing / deserializing) EAs.

- Jordan





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