ZFS support for Access Based Enumeration [PSARC/2009/246 FastTrack timeout 04/27/2009]

[Jordan Brown]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> IMO it shouldn't just be a matter of feature parity with Windows.
> 
> Think Solaris TX, for example.  But also, why not make the feature
> available in more contexts if it makes sense (either because it makes
> sense by itself or to avoid circumvention).

Because it costs effort to do.

If the only demand for this feature is from pure Windows shops, if we don't 
think it's a good general-purpose feature, we shouldn't spend the effort to 
support it anywhere other than CIFS.