Ross wrote: > I'm not sure how this is a ZFS function? You're talking about using ZFS to > create a USB drive? So you'd want a small box running ZFS with a USB > interface that you can just plug into other computers to access the storage? > > Well the first problem is that USB cables are directional, and you don't have > the port you need on any standard motherboard. That means you'll need a > custom interface board of some kind to give you access to the right kind of > USB plug, and then you'd need custom drivers to run that. > > So you need custom hardware followed by a custom USB driver. However once > you've done that you just read ZFS the same way you would read any filesystem. > > Adding iSCSI support to ZFS is relatively easy since Solaris already > supported TCP/IP and iSCSI. Adding USB support is much more difficult and > isn't likely to happen since afaik the hardware to do it just doens't exist.
What do you mean by adding iSCSI support to ZFS ? Solaris already has iSCSI, ZFS already knows how to share ZVOLs as iSCSI targets, ZFS pools can be created on an iSCSI target. What more is needed for iSCSI and ZFS integration ? -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
