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Hi,

I listened to the podcast it was interesting.

Gonna throw some questions you may or may not have gotten.

Are special devices like metadata or write-ahead log devices on the roadmap? Or distributed raid / other exotic raid types?

It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on these.

What do you think zfs got right with this and what did they get wrong?

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You can do that now via the data_allowed parameter

ZFS did a bunch of stuff right, it's just a much older design; pre-extents, and based on the original Unix filesystem design - filesystem as a database was still unproven at the time.

They were just working incrementally, which for the amount of new features ZFS already had was the smart decision at the time.

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