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It might just be how you present it, but to me that sounds like using multiple layers of hacks to implement use-cases other filesystems were carefully designed
by josteink 9y ago
It might just be how you present it, but to me that sounds like using multiple layers of hacks to implement use-cases other filesystems were carefully designed to support in the first place, and that sounds extremely unreliable and brittle.
I'll stick to ZFS :)
- diegocg 9y agoYeah, these subvolumes are going to have scalability issues compared with cleanly designed subvolumes such as in ZFS. But I wouldn't describe them as a hack - it's a rather interesting feature that not other filesystem has explored before. I would describe it as "loop devices done well". I don't think reliability will be a problem, for the upper layer these embedded filesystems are in fact just files.