OpenZFS has some extremely nice tools and you can do a lot with them, but they start to struggle once you need to do more complicated things with your storage, or scale your OpenZFS installation out to tens or hundreds of pools, or use it as a component of a larger product. That’s usually when people turn up looking for better ways to “program” OpenZFS, and it’s usually not long before they’re disappointed, horrified or both.
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