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for the clueless

Posted Jun 12, 2007 20:01 UTC (Tue) by ccyoung (guest, #16340)
Parent article: Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

such as myself,

what is ZFS and what makes it so hot?

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Google is your friend

Posted Jun 12, 2007 20:21 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

for the clueless

Posted Jun 12, 2007 21:14 UTC (Tue) by huerlisi (guest, #44534) [Link]

Because it's a nice product of computer engineering. Here's a quote from a nice-to-read geeky background article :

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

Simon