iCloud servers are probably on various continents, for performance. That also means that they may be subject to different rules in different juristictions; you think your privacy isn't perfect in the US? For sure it would be worse some other places.
But you've got it wrong anyway; the formerly free iSCSI initiator for Mac was from Studio Network Solutions, _not_ from Apple. Back when the free version worked, I noticed the following: under a normal setup using its GUI, the filesystems were only mounted when I was logged in; and if I stayed logged in for days at a time, I tended to crash. I'm not saying their initiator was definitely at fault, just saying it may not be the answer you're hoping for. I haven't tried greenbytes.com version of zfs for the Mac (neither the paid nor the free), but I have used http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ on Snow Leopard and Lion, although only playing; in particular, I never used a local disk partition, so I don't know how solid it is by itself. On Sep 15, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Roel_D wrote: > $80,- ?? > > That is lame, so they just want the basic user to store everything in their > US-based iCloud? > #fail > > Op 15 sep. 2012 om 22:54 heeft Magnus <mag...@yonderway.com> het volgende > geschreven: > >> >> On Sep 15, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Roel_D wrote: >> >>> create a ZFS drive in OI, create an iSCSI target on it, join it from your >>> Apple, Format it as you wish, create a backupplan voor your ZFS >>> drive/slice, done? >> >> The iSCSI initiator for OS X is no longer free software. Unless there is >> another one that I'm not aware of, this plan of action would cost the end >> user about $80 for the initiator software. It's a sad turn of events for Mac >> users but what can you do? >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- eMail: mailto:rlha...@smart.net Home page: http://www.smart.net/~rlhamil/ Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Yahoo, etc: ask _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
