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SMB shares using OmniOS, zones and ZFS

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OmniOS / Illumos provides a native way to expose data stored on ZFS using the SMB / CIFS protocol. Furthemore, using zones limits the attack surface of a server ; or a least, the impact of a compromised service. Long story short: I replaced my UFS+Samba shares with ZFS+Solarish.

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