On Dec 25, 2011, at 10:52 PM, John Stalberg wrote: > > Well they could of course use ZFS to make a good solution. zpool's seems to > be a perfect match here and if they are serious about data integrity and sort > of suffer a bit from having lots of different disks to achive enough of > storage space I could not think of a better solution than ZFS.
I'll estimate the percent of photographers familiar with ZFS, LVM/LVM2, and all of linux file systems combined, is less than 1%. Few of them even recognize any variant of the current one they're using. Filesystems is a foreign language to them, as it is most Mac users. Keep in my my original point, their storage needs are at, or at least approach, an enterprise level requirement - an enterprise business would have full time IT staff for this kind of data. The CEO would not need to know such things. They'd have staff. This is why I implicate Apple in this. It has been the expectation of Mac users that Apple will create or take capable, even complex technology, and simply make it work for the rest of us. This is not the only ball they have dropped while distracted with iProducts. > Yes a command line manegement is nessesary but on the other hand it is > remarkably easy to manage your zpool's and have zraid or/and mirrors to give > redundance to the soup. ZFS is definitely not just a filesystem but very much > a management instrument as well. Command line interface for a photographer is a deal killer. It is for a bulk of Mac users, really. I guarantee you there will be no meaningful adoption if command line management is necessary. They will not go down that road in any appreciable numbers. And at least from what I've see of Z-410's screen shots, they intend to have some GUI management. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
