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Not surprising but not insightful at all unfortunately
As always it is a tradeoff, and given many designs don't need much block memory, or need so much memory that external memory is a better choice anyway.
Then he started asking me to make them accessible to non programmers, and suddenly those tools seemed a lot more than I bargained for.
So certainly possible for non-expulsive activities to trigger a lahar and for consequences that sound like they are more from a disaster movie then real life to occur.
It it is also worth noting that many SSD's are over-provisioned by the manufacture anyway, in those drives manual over-provisioning might achieve very little anyway.
Compression settings are set at a per dataset level, so applying this to only some files in a dataset isn't practical.
Been quite keen to build something similar (albeit less nodes) for a little while. I find the homebrew blade style cluster amusing for some reason.