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Strongly disagree that the CLI is intuitive. It’s very easy to kick off unintended actions or back oneself into a corner while doing things that seem reasonable
by pantaloony 6y ago
Strongly disagree that the CLI is intuitive. It’s very easy to kick off unintended actions or back oneself into a corner while doing things that seem reasonable. It’s like using Git in that it’s very hard to do well without a good understanding of the fundamentals, which feel almost nothing like managing disks normally. Lots of things require multiple steps that aren’t obviously related and you’d better not screw them up.
It’s way at the far end of the “must RTFM to use safely, and then probably brush up on it again before actually doing anything unless you use it daily” spectrum of intuitiveness.
I like my ZFS mass storage volumes for my home server. I worry I’ll screw them up and/or burn an hour googling and reading the manual every time I have to touch them, though.