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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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Subject: Re: Thinking of using ZFS/FBSD for a backup system
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:

KK> > KK> (ports-i386:~)> uname -a
KK> > KK> FreeBSD pointyhat.freebsd.org 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #31: Wed
KK> > Jun
KK> > KK> 25 19:40:40 UTC 2008
KK> > 
KK> > Wow! I did't realize you switched package building infrastructure to ZFS.
KK> > 
KK> > Nice and promising!
KK> 
KK> Yeah, the server has been using ZFS since some time last year, but recently
KK> I went much further and made it make use of (i.e. require) ZFS features like
KK> snapshots and clones.

Is it documented somewhere? 

Hmm, well.

marck@wizzle:/usr/ports> grep -Ril zfs Tools/
Tools/portbuild/scripts/claim-chroot
Tools/portbuild/scripts/clean-chroot
Tools/portbuild/scripts/cleanup-chroots

;-)

Any pitfalls while using this? Thanks!

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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