| The ZFS filesystem approach is actually better than quotas for User
| and Shared directories, since the purpose is to limit the amount of
| space taken up *under that directory tree*.
Speaking only for myself, I would find ZFS filesystems somewhat more
useful if they were more like directory trees and less like actual
filesystems. Right now, their filesystem nature creates several
limitations:
- you cannot semi-transparently convert an existing directory tree into
a new ZFS filesystem; you need to move the directory tree aside, make
a new filesystem, and copy all the data over.
- as separate filesystems, they have to be separately NFS mounted
- you cannot hardlink between separate filesystems, which is a problem
if you want to use a lot of ZFS filesystems for fine-grained management
of things like NFS permissions.
- cks
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