Meik Hellmund <[email protected]> writes:

> According to the last entry in 
> <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14400/>,
> the timeslider nautilus extension is NFS-transparent. 

I fear this entry is wrong.

> That's great news. In one of my Sunray installations I have 
> a Solaris machine (currently Nevada b95) providing CDE and 
> with all the home directories on ZFS and  two Linux machines providing
> Gnome and KDE for ~100 users. 
> So it should be possible for me to provide this feature for the
> Gnome users of Solaris *and* Linux. On the Linux side I only have to
> build my own nautilus with the patch
> <http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/branches/gnome-2-24/patches/nautilus-13-zfs-snapshot.diff>
> Sounds like an interesting project.

But impossible right now: the patch uses a libzfs function directly, which
isn't available on non-Solaris and wont work even with a Solaris client via
NFS.  See the last comment at

        http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/zfs_on_the_desktop_zfs#comments

for details.

        Rainer

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