Group,
Isn't Apple strength really in the non-compute intensive
personal computer / small business environment?
IE, Plug and play.
Thus, even though ZFS is able to work as the default
FS, should it be the default FS for the small system
environment where your average user, wants it more to
work, and cares less about administration issues.
It/ZFS almost, IMO, needs to check mistakes with configuration
in the first case, where the larger business environment
can have one or more dedicated admins that are more adapt
to config and tuning issues.
Mitchell Erblich
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Rich Teer wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Robert Smicinski wrote:
>
> > Apple's strength is the desktop, Sun's is the datacenter.
>
> Agreed, to a large extent.
>
> > There's no need to have ZFS on the desktop, just as there's no need
> > to have HFS+ in the datacenter.
>
> I strongly disagree with the first clause of that sentence. There's
> no reason why one wouldn't want to have mirrored file systems on a
> workstation, or make use of snapshots and clones. All three of those
> features are supplied rather handily by ZFS.
>
> ZFS isn't just about easily creating massive pools of data, although
> admitedly that is the first feature most people mention.
>
> > There is a need to improve ZFS in the datacenter, however, and I wish
> > Sun had invested their time in getting dynamic LUN expansion going
> > instead of working on a port to OS/X.
>
> I have no insider knowledge, but I don't think Sun invested much time
> in this. I believe Apple's engineers did most of the work.
>
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