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LeoPanthera on Aug 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Dropbox dropping Linux support says

At least on FreeBSD, both those tools have been explicitly patched for ZFS. (See, for example, the -A switch to du.)

DannyB2 on Aug 28, 2018 [–]

Your statement proves the point that developing for Linux means having to support many choices.

What patches will be needed for yet some different filesystem, or init system, or desktop interface? And how many hundreds or thousands of programs might be affected?

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