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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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    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.

  3. Re:Unnecessary, commas by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of us mangle "proper" punctuation and grammar all of the time because we write how we speak, we're not writing an English composition paper or a scientific journal. I find the headline to be as natural- sounding as possible while emphasizing that the implementation is an OpenSolaris-only one.

    There's nothing wrong with having style. If you think this article's headline's is bad, then try to read Hunter S. Thompson or William S. Burroughs!

  4. Re:Unnecessary, commas by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some of us mangle "proper" punctuation and grammar all of the time because we write how we speak

    I, have, asthma, you, insensitive, clod.

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