Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:45:51 +0200 From: Simon Toedt <simon.toedt@gmail.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Lionel Cons <lionelcons1972@gmail.com>, Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de> Subject: Re: Tool to access ZFS/NFSv4 alternate data streams on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <CAPL6_jR%2Bq_ZvCctw=EQxDCEDQNh1sqYijRpQXT9JwxNYg9ccfg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B1A2A52A-E26C-435E-A8FB-9FAF2829AFEB@ixsystems.com> References: <220565922.34288992.1410298180362.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> <B1A2A52A-E26C-435E-A8FB-9FAF2829AFEB@ixsystems.com>
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com> wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > > 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 th= e > magic) then the OS X versions of tar/pax/cpio/=E2=80=A6 are just forked v= ersions of > the FreeBSD tools, but with copyfile(3) support for handling (serializing= / > deserializing) EAs. > > - Jordan Does FreeBSD partake in Google Summer Of Code? Adding O_XATTR support sounds like an excellent project for it which could benefit all of the *BSD, from FreeBSD over NetBSD up to Dragonfly... Simon
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