On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:28:17 PDT
"parkpaya at hotmail.com" <parkpaya at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > But do you have any problems with using OpenSolaris
> > so far? Which part of using OpenSolaris required
> > "UNIX guru abilities" from you? From my experience it
> > is very nice system for developers, mainly thanks to
> > ZFS which makes work so much safer, when you master
> > it (which is realy easy now, since there is now GUI
> > for ZFS snapshotting and restoring snapshots).
>
> Are "general-user" really have to use ZFS?
> Perhaps,it have to use on Server.But "general-user" 's computer isn't a
> Server.
As Brian said, it's not "have to", it's "get to". ZFS is a game
changer because it makes things that used to require guru-level
knowledge - and a great deal of effort - nearly trivial. This lets you
- or more accurately, software you install - take advantage of
facilities whose deployment cost with pre-zfs file systems was much
greater than the value of putting them on a single-user desktop
system.
Brian listed one example: time slider, which uses snapshots to provide
access to old versions of your files with a friendly user
interface. That's something my clients get with NAS systems that cost
as much as a house, except without the nice user interface. Apple
provides a nice user interface with their "time machine" technology,
except - well, they do backups instead of snapshots, which requires a
separate disk (which gives them a plus for being useful if the data
disk fails), but take more time and uses a proprietary format on disk
that's opaque to anything but their software. And worse yet, seems to
fail regularly.
I'd expect such thing to surface regularly for ZFS.
<mike
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