Just a head's up, the Illumos devs have committed an update to zfs that removes the dependency on Python. Blog report here: http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/12/zfs-should-not-depend-on-python-and.html This may (or may not) make it easier to import a newer version of ZFS into -CURRENT. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com