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On 2013-08-18 5:16 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> While we're on the topic, what's the obsession with having different
> bits of the file hierarchy as different*mount points*? That harks back
> to the days when the only way to have a chunk of fs space be different
> was to have it as a separate physical thing and mount it. Nowadays we
> have something better - ZFS. To me this makes so much more sense. I have
> a large amount of storage called a pool, and set size limits and
> characteristics for various directories without having to deal with
> fixed size volumes.

Eh? *Who* has ZFS? Certainly not the linux kernel.