Any takers for the: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154873 ? Summary: ftruncate under ZFS requires W file access permission, instead of testing file open mode (O_RDWR), (violating POSIX.1-2008 and breaking Postfix mailer) (FreeBSD 8.2, ZFS: pool version 15, ZFS version 4, and earlier) Mark