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		the8472 on Jan 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus: Don't Use ZFS ZFS wanted to have that too (the mythical block pointer rewrite) but it never happend, instead they add clunky workarounds like indirection tables for.

p_l on Jan 11, 2020 [–]

It was treated more like "ok, yet another person complaining about it - here's what you need to implement, and why you won't".

The indirection tables are survivable for fixing short term mistakes, though.

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