can you guess? wrote: > ... > I > >> was running the card in RAID0 and getting random >> corrupted bytes on >> reads that went away when I switched to JBOD. >> > > Then it kind of sounds like a card problem rather than a cable problem. > > Perhaps there's a very basic definition issue here: when I use the term > 'consumer', I'm referring to the people who buy a computer and never open up > the case, not to people who fool around with RAID cards. I'm referring to > people who would likely say "What?" if you referred to Linux. I'm referring > to people who would be extremely unlikely to be found participating in this > forum. > > In other words, to the overwhelming majority of PC users, who don't want to > hear anything that suggests that they might have to become more intimately > involved with their computer in order to make it better (let alone 'better' > in the relatively marginal and fairly abstruse ways that ZFS would). >
Statistically there are a lot of them. But I've known lots of early-adopters with no professional computer background (one of them has *since then* done some tech-writing work) who built machines from parts, replaced motherboards, upgraded the processors in "non-upgradeable" MACs, ran OS/2, even converted themselves to Linux, on their home systems. These are consumer users too. > I'd include most Mac users as well, except that they've just suffered a major > disruption to their world-view by being told that moving to the > previously-despised Intel platform constitutes an *upgrade* - so if you can > give them any excuse to think that ZFS is superior (and not available on > Windows) they'll likely grab for it like desperate voyagers on the Titanic > grabbed for life savers (hey, Steve's no dummy). > Long-time MAC users must be getting used to having their entire world disrupted and having to re-buy all their software. This is at least the second complete flag-day (no forward or backwards compatibility) change they've been through. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
