"I wrote "a lot of its capabilities are much more relevant for large servers" Which is true." That is a myth. It's simply not the case. What you could argue is

"I wrote "a lot of its capabilities are much more relevant for large servers" Which is true." That is a myth. It's simply not the case. What you could argue is that if you solve a problem for servers, it is also solved for consumer grade hardware, but writing a volume manager / filesystem for servers is empathically not what Bill Moore and Jeff Bonwick set out to do. Jeff wanted to solve the problem of data integrity in a filesystem (his own words), not explicitly design a solution relevant for servers. ZFS is perfect for laptops and desktops. See also https://wiki.illumos.org/download/attachments/1146951/zfs_last.pdf https://wiki.illumos.org/download/attachments/1146951/zfs_la... ...if you still have difficulty with the concept of ZFS being perfect for shitty consumer grade drives in desktops and laptops, do this mental exercise: which features of ZFS would make it not be a good fit for a cheap consumer drive?