On 4-Dec-07, at 9:35 AM, can you guess? wrote: > Your response here appears to refer to a different post in this > thread. > >> I never said I was a typical consumer. > > Then it's unclear how your comment related to the material which > you quoted (and hence to which it was apparently responding). > >> If you look around photo forums, you'll see an >> interest the digital workflow which includes long >> term storage and archiving. A chunk of these users >> will opt for an external RAID box (10%? 20%?). I >> suspect ZFS will change that game in the future. In >> particular for someone doing lots of editing, >> snapshots can help recover from user error. > > Ah - so now the rationalization has changed to snapshot support. > Unfortunately for ZFS, snapshot support is pretty commonly available
We can cherry pick features all day. People choose ZFS for the combination (as well as its unique features). --Toby > (e.g., in Linux's LVM - and IIRC BSD's as well - if you're looking > at open-source solutions) so anyone who actually found this feature > important has had access to it for quite a while already. > > And my original comment which you quoted still obtains as far as > typical consumers are concerned. > > - bill > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
