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On 29/9/17 12:50 am, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 28/09/2017 19:44, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> On 28/09/2017 18:55, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>> Iirc, the big difference between 5.2.x and 5.3 is that the latter added
>>> support for integers.  It seems like that would be a good thing, in the
>>> kernel.
>> I am sure that the ZFS Lua represents numbers as integers and has no floating
>> point support at all.
>
> Some more info:
> https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/lua/README.zfs
>
I suggest as a point to feed back to the originators that a name 
change may be in order.. klua (kernel lua) perhaps.