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OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, NetBSD network security stack audit, Performance of MySQL on ZFS, OpenSMTP results from p2k18, legacy Windows backup to FreeNAS, ZFS block size importance, and NetBSD as router on a stick. ##Headlines ZFS and DTrace update lands in NetBSD merge a new version of the CDDL dtrace and ZFS code. This changes the upstream vendor from OpenSolaris to FreeBSD, and this version is based on FreeBSD svn r315983. r315983 is from March 2017 (14 months ago), so there is still more work to do in addition to the 10 years of improvements from upstream, this version also has these NetBSD-specific enhancements: dtrace FBT probes can now be placed in kernel modules. ZFS now supports mmap(). This brings NetBSD 10 years forward, and they should be able to catch the rest of the way up fairly quickly ###NetBSD network stack security audit Maxime Villard has been working on an audit of the NetBSD network stack, a project sponsored by The NetBSD Foundation, which has served all users o