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Subject: Re: Thinking of using ZFS/FBSD for a backup system
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> KK> (ports-i386:~)> uname -a
> KK> FreeBSD pointyhat.freebsd.org 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #31: Wed Jun
> KK> 25 19:40:40 UTC 2008
> 
> Wow! I did't realize you switched package building infrastructure to ZFS.
> 
> Nice and promising!

Yeah, the server has been using ZFS since some time last year, but 
recently I went much further and made it make use of (i.e. require) ZFS 
features like snapshots and clones.

Kris