On 24 dec 2011, at 06:40, objectwerks inc <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> >> On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Scott Lewis wrote: >>> >>> Defend? No. There are tons of storage vendors. Apple isn't one. Few can be. >>> That's why lh, equallogic, Compellent and 3par have all been acquired in >>> the past few years. >> >> Storage management is not a 3rd party solution. It is something Apple would >> have to provide. Very few people will trust logical volume management or a >> file system from a 3rd party. It's questionable at best if such a thing >> would have bootloader support. LVM is a kernel space implementation, it >> requires integration with a device mapper. >> >> To get real management also means online volume resizing, online relocation >> of data from one drive to another, and snapshots. I can't imagine a 3rd >> party touching this who does not have the ability to issue a custom kernel. > > Coming soon to a Mac near you: > > http://tenscomplement.com/ > Exists today: http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ Z-410 will be of a later version and more importantly be actively developed in a higher pace. Mac-ZFS is working and is there to download today. But yes Z-410 is hopefully bringing the ZFS on Mac forward. // John Stalberg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
