Alright, I've read through some of these design docs. it's unfortunate
they're buried in blog posts and not just laid out on an ubuntu site
about zsys and zfs usage on Ubuntu, but at least now I know where they
are.

More to the point, all I've done is watch some movies and download some
games on steam, and within a month my system had unusably low disk
space. So I'd definitely dispute your claim that my use case is
"extreme". my use case is standard desktop usage, and not accounting for
very normal usage in your design before shipping it with the OS is
honestly unbelievable. if I was running server workloads with highly
changing datasets, this would be way worse. I typically see > 1TB / week
of writes on low usage servers, let alone the sometimes multiple
TBs/hour on high usage systems, so I honestly can't imagine who this
system design is for.

I'll try playing with a manually installed zsys.conf file and see if I
can get this down to something usable. maybe if I just keep it to 2 old
states instead of 20, that'd be more viable. I'd definitely recommend
that the zsys.conf usage be documented in the package, either with a man
page or a README under /usr/share/doc, since these implementation
details seem pretty well hidden.

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