On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:54 -0700, Erblichs wrote: > Group, > > Isn't Apple strength really in the non-compute intensive > personal computer / small business environment? > IE, Plug and play.
Warning, real case to follow, not a what if scenario: Over the past 10 years, I've been slowly but surely ripping my vinyl records to disk. This is quite a common operation on a PC or Mac, that you have an ipod or any other music player, or simply to archive to CD (DVD now). Imagine my disgust when silent corruption destroyed a good bit of this. Not only that but since no actual error had occurred as far as the file system or OS was concerned, the backup itself was copying garbage on all the files that had been silently corrupted. Oh, the checksum matched what was on disk, it just had been corrupted all along and getting worse. Early on I would rip to wav, burn an audio CD and archive that. After a while I had assumed I would be safe with a mirrored disk pair and a backup. bzzt. wrong. So much for plug and play. That was 2006. Enter ZFS. All my computers now run Solaris on the desktop. ZFS everywhere. Never again will I have to deal with this problem. Francois _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
