zfs discuss - Dec 2005 - A better name than "virtual device" for the constituents of a pool

I recall people expressing annoyance about the fact that physical hard drives
are called "virtual devices" in ZFS terminology. Instead of calling
the physical drives and the files which constitute a pool "virtual
devices", wouldn''t it make more sense to call them
"puddles"?

Sun presumably wouldn''t be too apprehensive about such a name, as it
already refers to a collection of consolidations as a "Wad Of S---, er,
Stuff", not to mention the "I can grab a slab" source of the term
"slab allocator".
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