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Re:Big News for ZFS on Linux by rcthompson on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:47PM (#11241990)
I disagree. As one example, Apple ships Time Machine with their OS. With ZFS you could theoretically implement the same thing only better. Automatic snapshots enabled by default, with optional replication to an external hard drive for backup, could easily be a headline feature for a new version of Ubuntu. Not to mention ZFS compression enabled by default to get more use out of tiny laptop SSDs.

Certainly not everyone needs it, but I think there's a definite use case for ZFS (or btrfs, or any similar filesystem) on an ordinary desktop system, even if the user doesn't know what ZFS is.

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Re:Big News for ZFS on Linux by mioelnir on Monday March 07, 2016 @07:37PM (#11242827)
Not theoretically, since it has been done. It is called LifePreserver and originated with PC-BSD years ago; thus available on FreeBSD an FreeNAS as well.

I will have a good laugh if Ubuntu is porting it over as a "headline feature".

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Re:Big News for ZFS on Linux by rbanffy on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @12:49AM (#11243747)
> With ZFS you could theoretically implement the same thing only better.

OpenSolaris had that as part of its Gnome file manager. It's even open source.

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