On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:03:39PM -0500, Jason King wrote:
> ISTR POSIX also doesn't allow a number of features that can be turned
> on with zfs (even ignoring the current issues that prevent ZFS from
> being fully POSIX compliant today). I think an additional option for
> the snapdir property ('directory' ?) that provides this behavior (with
> suitable warnings about posix compliance) would be reasonable.
>
> I believe it's sufficient that zfs provide the necessary options to
> act in a posix compliant manner (much like you have to set $PATH
> correctly to get POSIX conforming behavior, even though that might not
> be the default), though I'm happy to be corrected about this.
Yes, that's true. But you couldn't rely on this behavior, whereas you
can rely on dataset roots having .zfs. If you're going to script this,
then you'll want to rely on the current (POSIX-compliant) behavior.
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