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On 12/11/2017 07:14, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On 12 November 2017 at 12:16, Patrick Dorion <dorionpatrick@outlook.com> wrote:
>> What's the difference between using Poudriere or Synth, though?
>>
>> This is a clean system, I can't imagine a jail being cleaner... it was unpacked from the DVD the day before yesterday....
> Both are clean room builds; ie where only minimal build dependancies
> are installed for each port build. The main difference is that:
>   * poudriere uses jails to achieve this
>   * synth uses unionfs+chroot to achieve this

Does it mean synth can't be used on ZFS? AFAIK unionfs isn't properly 
supported on ZFS, i.e. a file that exists in the underlying fs can't be 
marked as deleted in the overlying fs.

GrzegorzJ