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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. Unnecessary, Punctuation by bperkins · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not go all the way?

    Gnome's Nautilus: Gets "ZFS" Integration! (In OpenSolaris)

  2. Hurrah..zzz by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So what it gets integration with OpenSolaris.

    You know what? Basic SMB mounting doesnt even work right in Ubuntu. Instead, it mounts crap via ~/.gvfs and fake handles for Gnome-only apps.

    Instead, if Ubuntu used standard mounting techniques, it would mount as something sane like ~/mnt/$computer/$share_name/ so that all programs could use it easily.

    Most likely, this ZFS setup uses the same non-standard techniques that make the features ONLY for gnome programs.

    FAIL.

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  3. Dear nautilus: please don't hog my RAM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I know it's not zfs-related, but nautilus is such a freaking *hog* that I can't avoid this opportunity to *beg* nautilus developers to lighten their memory footprint.