I probably should move this bikeshed to freebsd-chat... Gonzalo Nemmi <gne...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 6:20:35 pm Frank Shute wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:24:58PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> I can imagine that a lot of people do use sendmail - it's documented >> in the handbook for starters. If it was taken out and replaced with >> another MTA then there would be complaints that sendmail has been >> taken out or "replacement MTA" is the "wrong one". > > Well .. someday UFS will be replaced by ZFS .. Maybe. That's still quite a way out, and who knows what else will come along in the meantime? > .. and one day Perl just > dissapeard from base .. yet the worl kept turning, and even better .. > no one got hurt ;) I remember quite a bit of pain. It was worth it, because maintaining perl in the base was causing pain on an ongoing basis, but it was a problem for users in a number of different ways. > in the other hand, those not complaining, will probably be really > happy .. so ... So you keep saying, but I don't think there's any solid evidence. Your experience is one thing, but although I consider myself a postfix user, I have machines that run sendmail because it just worked for their purpose with no configuration at all. > Doesn't ZFS mean that you have to reconfigure (or even reinstall) your > system? No. Your old configuration works just fine if you still want to keep using it. You won't get the advantages of ZFS, but having it in FreeBSD didn't bre -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"