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Subject: ZFS user library?
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Hello,

I was wondering if there are plans to document and keep the ZFS user  
library as a reasonably stable API.

I have been writing an automatic replication program, and it's ugly  
and clumsy to do it calling a user program. I would rather prefer to  
use an API, that would make it much easier to retrieve error messages,  
etc.





Borja.