Tool to access ZFS/NFSv4 alternate data streams on FreeBSD?

[Jordan Hubbard]

> On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at 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 the magic) then the OS X versions of tar/pax/cpio/… are just forked versions of the FreeBSD tools, but with copyfile(3) support for handling (serializing / deserializing) EAs.

- Jordan