non-root user can not create zfs filesystem?

Pete French petefrench at ticketswitch.com
Wed Oct 22 04:15:38 PDT 2008


> Creating a filesystem is something that can only be done by root.  I'm
> not sure what gave you the impression non-root users can do this...?

He probably though that because it's possible in the current Solaris
implementation of ZFS:

http://blogs.sun.com/marks/entry/zfs_delegated_administration

I thought this hadn't been ported, but taking a quick look at the bottom
of http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS it appears it's now done, which is cool :)

-pete.


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