On 03/30/10 09:58, Glenn Brunette wrote: > > Dan, > > I have to +1 all of your well-thought-out comments. As a potential > consuming of this functionality for the Immutable Service Container > project, answers to these questions are critical. > > I am also interested in whether additional fields can be added to > the output similar to a "-o field1,field2" scenario? It would be > nice to have data such as file type, modification time (where > applicable). > > Also, will this functionality be able to tell how files were modified? > Things like changes in file ownership, group membership, permissions > and ACLs, size, times, etc.? Even if this processing is not directly > implemented as part of the zfs diff command, perhaps the fields could > be made available (per -o comment above) to be consumed by layered > tools?
A very detailed human readable diff of file attributes seems a lot of additional work to place on zfs diff. Isn't a list of what is different sufficient to give to another program? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance bart.smaalders at oracle.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
