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
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