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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:16:46 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS to support chflags?
Message-ID:  <20070412021645.GQ30772@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <200704112004.03903.lists@jnielsen.net>
References:  <200704112004.03903.lists@jnielsen.net>

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:04:03PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> I just moved /usr over to a zpool on my -CURRENT system. Performance and 
> stability are both excellent so far. (Thanks Pawel!) However I noticed that 
> setting FS flags on files with chflags is not supported. Would it be 
> feasible to add support for flags on ZFS, and if so are there plans to do 
> so?
> 
> If not (and/or in the meantime), are there any places in the base system 
> where flags are required for normal operation? (/var maybe?)

Some binaries have such flags set, but it is not required, otherwise
diskless NFS wouldn't work.
I often see installworld warnings about beeing unable to set extended
flags on ld.so and others on my diskless boxes.

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