On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:50:11 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Then I want to tell the system how much storage I want for what purpose.
> If Joe Blow is to get 20G of storage for his ~, I want to tell the
> system there is a thing called joeb and it has a hard quota of 20G. The
> software must then go and do all the magic, because I am tired of doing
> the magic myself.

It's a shame there appears to be no equivalent of a soft quota in ZFS.
Maybe it is the use of the term quota that is misleading, when in reality
it is more akin to volume size.

> I suppose the main attraction can be summed up thusly: ZFS lets me stop
> being the human in a place where a computer belongs :-)

+1 on all but the quota thing.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Mouse: (n.) an input device used by management to force computer users to
       keep at least a part of their desks clean.

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