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Gnome's Nautilus Gets ZFS Integration, In OpenSolaris

Posted by timothy on from the one-day-in-linux-would-be-nice dept.

13bpower writes "Sun developer Erwann Chenede posted a new plugin for Nautilus that will integrate ZFS's backup capabilities with Nautilus. This should be a pretty killer feature." As one of the comments puts it, this adds a "Time Machine-esque" function to Solaris, through which a user can specify backup frequency, and when needed browse from available snapshots to restore files.

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  1. Re:Hurrah..zzz by obi · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually, you're a bit behind the times. Check what David Zeuthen has to say about it:

    Today I committed a patch to GIO to ensure that GIO applications launching applications (such as the Nautilus file manager or the Evolution mailer) will always pass a FUSE path instead of the GIO URI. One implication of this is that if you launch a non-GIO application (such as mplayer or a KDE application) from Nautilus, that application will Just Work(tm) even if the file lives on a GVfs share.

    http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=104

    His blog post also touches on why a POSIX-only API for user space filesystems isn't good enough for modern desktops. That's one of the reasons why Gnome doesn't implement all these goodies as FUSE-only filesystems or even kernel-based filesystems. However with the FUSE bridge you can actually have POSIX-only applications access files on those GVFS filesystems - but GVFS isn't limited by it.

  2. Re:Hurrah..zzz by kylegordon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gnome failure. Not Ubuntu failure.