On 29-Nov-07, at 2:48 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: >> Getting back to 'consumer' use for a moment, though, >> given that something like 90% of consumers entrust >> their PC data to the tender mercies of Windows, and a >> large percentage of those neither back up their data, >> nor use RAID to guard against media failures, nor >> protect it effectively from the perils of Internet >> infection, it would seem difficult to assert that >> whatever additional protection ZFS may provide would >> make any noticeable difference in the consumer space >> - and that was the kind of reasoning behind my >> comment that began this sub-discussion. > > As a consumer at home, IT guy at work and amateur photographer, I > think ZFS will help change that. ... > 5) gets ZFS and does transfer direct to local disk from flash card. > > Today I can build a Solaris file server for a reasonable price with > off the shelf parts ($300 + disks). I can't get near that for a > WAFL based system. The only WAFL I can get is only on networked > storage which fails 5) for the obsessed. > > I can see ZFS coming to ready made networked RAID box that a pro-am > photographer could purchase.
Xserve + Xserve RAID... ZFS is already in OS X 10.5. As easy to set up and administer as any OS X system; a problem free and FAST network server to Macs or PCs. http://www.apple.com/xserve/ --Toby > I don't ever see that with WAFL. And either FS on a network RAID > box will be less error prone then a box running ext3/xfs as is > typical now. > > And that's what the ZFS hype is about IMO. > > As for a the viability of buying one of the boxes, look at what a > pro-am photographer might buy. ... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
