> Note that some very significant portion of LiveCDs today are actually > booted into virtual machines. So you're looking at all these > ZFS-curious people starting it up on their host OS, right clicking on a > folder in the guest, clicking Share, and seeing if they can access it > or not on the host. And then they'll send a couple virtual disks into > the guest, make a zpool, and try to share that. This is the sort of > thing you want to support.
That's an interesting use case that I hadn't thought of. I'm not sure how common it really would be but it seems keeping the server side is worthwhile to support this sort of thing. dsc
