Several months ago, ZFS added deduplication support. This is a brilliant feature which allows duplicate (N) copies of data to be represented only once on disk, rather than keeping multiple (N) copies. Unfortunately, deduplication has many potential security concerns, some obvious and some not-so-obvious. For instance, hashing collisions are an obvious problem and are fairly [...]
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I decided that one tweet would just do justice for this great event. I’ll start by saying that I honestly had a very good time. The people from Sun were all great, and I’m grateful that they hosted us. The food and open bar were excellent, although it was a shame that the lobby was [...]
