On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:42:03PM -0700, Darren Dunham wrote: > > Wouldn't ZFS's being an integrated filesystem make it easier for it to > > identify the file types vs. a standard block device with a filesystem > > overlaid upon it? > > I'm not sure. I would think that most applications are going to use the > POSIX layer where there's no separate API for filetypes. Every file is > "just" a bytestream. I don't see that ZFS gives you any more > information about a file's purpose or use.
Of course, we could add an API (or extended attr naming convention) for specifying MIME types for files. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
