On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, David Abrahams wrote:

If you want to do back ups of your file system use a documented
utility (tar, cpio, pax, zip, etc.).

Well understood.  But does anyone know the long-term intentions of
the ZFS developers in this area?  The one big disadvantage of the

It would be nice to know that they're thinking about a way to address
these issues.

You are requesting that the ZFS developers be able to predict the future. How can they do that?

Imposting a requirement for backwards compatibly will make it more difficult for ZFS to adapt to changing requirements as it evolves.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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