Hi, After purchasing a USB to IDE/SATA drive caddy to allow system backups, my attempt was to use a 120GB IDE drive that came out of an old PC. While changing the partition information with fdisk was straight forward, newfs'ing the disk was more of a problem as you had to enter the number of sectors. While searching for a solution, it was suggested using zfs instead and it worked really well, except for hot plugging required manual mount/remount.
Given the whole nature of ZFS in terms of reliability, redundancy and availability would it be possible to Have a hot plug storage media which is automatically recognised by Solaris/ZFS and mounted automatically in a /rmedia directory (this would work with USB, Firewire hot plug devices) As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could it be proposed to the makers of digitial devices like camera, usb memory manufacturers, router manufacturers, etc as a way of eliminating the FAT licensing yoke. This of course would require drivers to be available for Windows to allow read/write access and also speed up the time it makes the disk available for use. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
