Hi Dave, On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Dave Pooser <dave...@pooserville.com> wrote: > At $DAYJOB we have a need to get files from Mac-formatted (HFS+) volumes > from video record appliances onto ZFS-based storage towers (because when > you're talking about the only video recordings of a major corporate > meeting, "probably OK" filesystems aren't enough). Right now we do it via > a Mac -- hook drive to Mac, mount ZFS filesystem via CIFS, and copy-- but > that's a bit of a pain in the rear; it would be a lot easier to be able to > hook drives directly to an OI tower and copy the files that way. In an > ideal world we'd also be able to write to HFS+ drives, but I understand > that's trickier.
I have an interesting work-around idea. I've no clue if it would give the performance you'd need, but may be worth a try. Would you be able to run GNU/Linux (or Mac OS X) inside VirtualBox on OI (i.e. do you have a reasonable CPU and lots of RAM on the OI box)? You would hook up the HFS+ hard drive, create a corresponding virtual disk file pointing at the drive, and using either shared folders or a host-only virtual network (benchmark both!) you would be able to read (and write if you have OS X) to the drive. Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
