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Date:      Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:09:20 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
To:        Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2
Message-ID:  <201109262309.RAA19144@lariat.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1109261837340.882@multics.mit.edu>
References:  <201109260053.SAA25795@lariat.net> <201109260927.02540.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1109261359100.882@multics.mit.edu> <201109262035.OAA17199@lariat.net> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1109261837340.882@multics.mit.edu>

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At 04:38 PM 9/26/2011, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

>There was also general sentiment that the rise of ZFS would allow 
>just this sort of fine-grained partitioning, which is a huge 
>advantage of its ability to create datasets on the fly.  This 
>perception that ZFS is most of the future probably contributed to 
>the lack of strong opinions regarding the default UFS partition scheme.

Unfortunately, because ZFS is licensed under a viral license (not 
the GPL, but nonetheless one that isn't compatible with the BSD 
philosophy), I wouldn't want to see this happen. I'd rather see 
Hammer backported from Dragonfly.

--Brett




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