[justinsaccount]

saying smartos gives you persistent storage is like saying docker gives you persistent storage because you can use

  docker run .... -v /storage:/storage myapp

That's not what people are talking about. If you run a container on smartos and the physical machine it is running on blows up, what happens to your persistent storage?

[awinter-py]

technically it still persists, just in the form of hawking radiation instead of bits & bytes. Some people think this is what makes amazon glacier so cheap.