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It is useful because you don't need to migrate the fs if you need to expand later
This has zero to do with anything. Please explain why you wouldn't be able to expand storage otherwise, and how this solution helps with that. You're aware of LVM, btrfs, or ZFS?
Too entitled.
How is this anything like entitlement?
I don’t think these people deserve downvotes for answering questions.
You're providing misguided information. You shouldn't be ranked higher for that.
distributed file systems could be made with a cluster of s3-like selfdeployed services
...or, just run a distributed filesystem built for that purpose.