Re: ZFS, from hell's heart I stab at thee!

On 2008-06-04, Dave <jrzoyrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is England, dammit, we killed off anything remotely dangerous or
even annoying centuries ago.

Apart from the Scots.

Jim
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