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Re:ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environmen... by kobalsky on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:14PM (#33576579)
> I find it unfortunate that all the effort that has gone into ZFS as essentially a hobbyist copy-on-write filesystem didn't go into btrfs instead.

don't some BSDs and Linux share the same code base for ZFS?

Last I heard FreeBSD switched to ZfsOnLinux as upstream a few years ago before it was merged with OpenZFS.

IMO calling it a hobbyist fs is a bit unfair.

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Re:ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environmen... by yakak on Saturday November 12, 2022 @04:11PM (#33577123)
Being called hobbyist software derisively by the Linux community is like being knighted, I assume.
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Re:ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environmen... by ghaff on Sunday November 13, 2022 @08:51AM (#33583042)
It's not intended to be derisive so much as a simple matter of fact that it's 1.) Not in the mainline kernel; 2.) Isn't supported by most commercial distros; and 3.) Has somewhat ambiguous legal status. For individual use? Knock yourself out. But I wouldn't approve its use for a company unless I had very good and very specific reasons to do so.
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