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Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong.

Plus some really handy Linux picks, some community news, and a live broadcast from Seattle's Snowpocalypse!

Special Guest: Jim Salter.

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• Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”—but doesn’t seem to understand it | Ars Technica
• Linus Torvalds on ZFS
• A Quick Look At EXT4 vs. ZFS Performance On Ubuntu 19.10 With An NVMe SSD
• ZFS Isn’t the Only Option
• XFS Copy-On-Write
• New tricks for XFS
• Contributors to zfsonlinux/zfs
• OpenZFS leadership meetings and other videos
• OpenZFS 2.0 Out In 2020 With Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support, OpenZFS 3.0 With macOS - Phoronix

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