On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Albert Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Did someone think about a format (e.g. similar to the POSIX.1-2001 tar >>> extensions) that would allow to implement vendor unique extensions and that >>> would allow to ignore some features wile implementing others? >>> >>> Jörg >>> >> >> Yes. :) The proposal is called "feature flags" and described here: >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2011-May/048514.html >> Matt Ahrens also presented at the OpenStorage Summit: >> http://blog.delphix.com/matt/files/2011/11/oss.pdf > > I know this text, but it does ot mention whether it allows to ignore some of > the features. >
Feature flags provides fine-grained control over which features you want to enable and which ones you want to ignore. So if someone develops a new compression algorithm that you don't want to use then you simple don't enable it. - George > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > [email protected] (uni) > [email protected] (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175546-10f4e432 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
