On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:13:00PM -0700, dan wrote:
> I was trying to do ZFS on freebsd to eliminate the need to have backuppc
> compress the files and instead have ZFS do the work.  I have since moved to
> opensolaris 2008.11 beta as ZFS on freebsd is in alpha quality.  Have you
> considered this approach or are you bound to your current platform for
> backuppc?  ZFS is so perfect for backuppc that it is almost as if they

I have no desire to leave Debian, and ZFS to my knowledge is not
production-ready on any non-Solaris platform.

But thanks for the pointer -- I didn't know ZFS did transparent
compression.

-- John

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