>> To be honest, I think we should also remove this from all other
>> filesystems and I think ZFS was created this way because all modern
>> filesystems do it that way.
>
>This may be wrong way to go if it breaks existing applications which
>rely on this feature. It does break applications in our case.

I don't think this isn't supported on most Linux filesystems either.

What do you use it for?

>Anyway, we've added this to the list of mandatory features and see
>what we can procure with that.


Not much?

I'd suggest whether you can restructure your code and work without this.

For one, it requires the application to run with root (older versions) or
with specific privileges which aren't, e.g., available in non-global zones.

Casper

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