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		matthewmc3 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Love Letter to FreeBSD Honest question - if it comes in binary form, how can you know it's the same core ZFS code BSD uses?

E39M5S62 9 days ago [–]

Same as anything else installed as a binary package - you trust the people packaging/providing the binary. If you don't, build it yourself. The source is publicly available.

pabs3 9 days ago | [–]

Or you build it yourself and verify you got the same checksum.

https://reproducible-builds.org/

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