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Re:Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”–but doesn’t seem to u... by rat9988 on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:41AM (#22035369)
An api may not be meant to be used but what makes it important to hide it? They could just let it be until there is a real need to delete it. Just going out of your way to hide something is a bit hard to understand.
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Re:Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”–but doesn’t seem to u... by ncmncm on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:02PM (#22037445)
It is the next step leading up to deleting it.

There are very good reasons to delete unmaintained or hard-to-maintain code that nothing important depends on, or should depend on. But just deleting it creates hardships, so things happen in stages.

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