Henk, I think Alec was being sarcastic. :-P
And, Alec - that wasn't a good example. That was Windows Explorer (under XP and later) which presented ZIP files as browsable folders, not NTFS. We do need to be careful to differentiate between GUI and CLI _viewing_ of the filesystem, and the actual Filesystem Features (cf. my rants on ZFS "undo" :-) That said, a SQL-ish "view" feature as described would seem to be a good idea for inclusion in ZFS itself. I think I asked this before, but is there some place where we can get a "feature set" list for ZFS, and include things such as status (e.g. "finished", "work-in-progress", "under consideration", "pie-in-the-sky"), build targets (e.g. "B39", "aprox B60", etc.)? I'd be more than happy to volunteer to maintain/update such a page (and the associated communication coordination required). -Erik On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 00:32 +0200, Henk Langeveld wrote: > Alec suggested file system "views" and Andreas questioned: > >> How is it different from creating a snapshot and running "find" on it? > >> More convenient? Faster? Something else? > > To which Alec responded: > > Ever encountered an operating system that allows you > > to mount and manipulate a ZIP file as a filesystem? > > > > Why did anyone bother to do that, when they could just > > "zip -l" and pipe the output through "more"? > > ZFS is being promoted as a very scalable File System. To me > that implies that it should not just be able to manage huge > amounts of data, it should also provide some tools to handle > that data efficiently. "Views" fit with that model. > > Cheers, > Henk > -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca14-102 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
