I think it really depends.. I was at a job where it was like "Hey, these monthly md checks are causing IO issues let us disable them." So I read the man page f

I think it really depends.. I was at a job where it was like "Hey, these monthly md checks are causing IO issues let us disable them." So I read the man page for md and yeah... Let's not disable them. This is an anecdote sure, but an important one. Not everyone needs to understand what's going on with everything but I can tell you the ones who seek out the information and really try to grok the systems are rare and can be well compensated for it. Another anecdote: trying to use ZFS, and in particular de-dupe, without understanding it. De-dupe has its own trail of tears laid out from people who did not understand the memory requirements of it. Hello, I'm Rapzid. I'm 30 years old, and I'm a man page reader. Sue me.