Gnome's Nautilus Gets ZFS Integration, In OpenSolaris 38
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.
Unnecessary, Punctuation (Score:3, Interesting)
Why not go all the way?
Gnome's Nautilus: Gets "ZFS" Integration! (In OpenSolaris)
Hurrah..zzz (Score:5, 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.
Dear nautilus: please don't hog my RAM (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.