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By JT Pennington

Episode 255: What Are You Pointing At | BSD Now 255

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Published July 18, 2018 2:00am

What ZFS blockpointers are, zero-day rewards offered, KDE on FreeBSD status, new FreeBSD core team, NetBSD WiFi refresh, poor man’s CI, and the power of Ctrl+T.

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What ZFS block pointers are and what’s in them

I’ve mentioned ZFS block pointers in the past; for example, when I wrote about some details of ZFS DVAs, I said that DVAs are embedded in block pointers. But I’ve never really looked carefully at what is in block pointers and what that means and implies for ZFS.

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