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627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

Update: 2025-09-04
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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug, crawler plague and the fragility of the web, Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD, Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos, Eighteen Years of Greytrapping, and more



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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)






The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web






News Roundup



Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD






Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha






Despite thoughts to the contrary, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos






Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?






Tarsnap



This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.



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627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

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