Episode 627

Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

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September 4th, 2025

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About this Episode

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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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

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

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