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

[Simon Toedt]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Jordan Hubbard <jkh at ixsystems.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> 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

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