The Air Force would make do with 16 active and 12 reserve tactical fighter wings versus a Cold War structure of 24 active and 12 reserve fighter wings.
Taken together, you can infer that the ETF structure, as currently concieved, could run into operational hiccups when an active strategy get too big for its britches.
With the initial run of the Pimco Total Return ETF ( BOND), active ETFs and their managers may need to start thinking about the challenges that success could pose to the ETF structure.