[fpc-other] Git & SVN

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.fpc-other at telemetry.co.uk
Wed May 24 13:49:09 CEST 2017


On 24/05/17 08:30, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

>> Sorry, I've just had too many hard drives fail on me... so many fail>
>> that it's almost as if someone was doing it on purpose to me.
> Sounds like you are in serious need of ZFS. If you work on a laptop (so
> can't install 3+ hard drives), then I recommend you get one of those
> USB3 or Thunderbolt port external NAT-style storage devices. I know some
> of them support ZFS. But those storage devices are a bit costly. But
> then, how much is your data worth?

I agree, it's really very good indeed and I think the only reason that 
it's not more widely used is the licensing problem (Sun's license being 
incompatible with GPL) which resulted in a lot of FUD.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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