zfs: the exponential file system from hell

[Xin Li]

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On 10/02/13 09:59, Edho Arief wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net>
> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think 'zfs list' reports the "right" numbers either:
>> there is no notion of "available shared space between this, this
>> and this file systems".  The underlying problem is that it's
>> always hard to represent mutli-dimensional value in a linear
>> manner, to do it, we would need to create something new.
>> 
> 
> Considering df output for UFS is never `size = used + avail`
> anyway, is there any problem with having df output for zfs to:
> 
> - size: total size (zpool-wide, sans redundancy) - used: specific
> filesystem usage - avail: total available space
> 
> ?

This doesn't solve OP's problem...

Cheers,
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