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What are we afraid of?

What are we afraid of?

Posted Jan 31, 2008 19:02 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: What are we afraid of? by dlang
Parent article: LCA: The state of Debian

I wasn't talking about shipping a kernel comprising Linux and ZFS.  I was talking about
Nexenta -- http://nexenta.org -- a project to compile Ubuntu packages on Solaris so that you
can use all the familiar userland tools such as apt-get and also the beautiful new Solaris
tools such as ZFS and dtrace.

For example, the nexenta folks have created a tool called "apt-clone", which uses ZFS
snapshots to make it possible to rewind to that particular set of installed debian packages.
Isn't that awesome?


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