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By JT Pennington

233: High on ZFS

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Published February 14, 2018 7:00am

We explain the physics behind ZFS, DTrace switching to the GPL, Emacs debugging, syncookies coming to PF & FreeBSD’s history on EC2.This episode was brought to you by

Headlines128 bit storage: Are you high?For people who have heard about ZFS boiling oceans and wonder where that is coming from, we dug out this old piece from 2004 on the blog of ZFS co-creator Jeff Bonwick, originally from the Sun website.

64 bits would have been plenty ... but then you can't talk out of your ass about boiling oceans then, ca...

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