Alan.M.Wright wrote: >> Aren't you already doing that by looking at the new attribute and then >> only parsing the symlink data if it is tagged as a reparse point. I >> agree with Nico I think this case should use a system attribute as the >> "tag" like it does now but store the data in an extended attribute (ie >> the runat ones) that shouldn't require you wait on any new >> functionality in ZFS. > > We can't do that with this proposal because symlink can't have > extended attributes.
The point is NOT to use symlinks at all but to use a file with an extended attribute. -- Darren J Moffat
