On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just get my laptop within WiFi range and mount :-). I don't see any > benefit to a wire which is slower than Ethernet, when an Ethernet > port is readily available on almost all modern laptops.
I think what Bob meant was something like Apple's Firewire target mode. If you turn on the machine while holding down the "T" key, the machine presents itself as a firewire drive. You can plug it in and access the disk without booting. Since the host is not booted into an OS, there is still only one machine accessing the filesystem. In theory, you could do this today with a ZFS filesystem on a Mac, since the target mode ability is in the machine's firmware. To do it with another brand of machine, you'd need a boot image that presented the drive(s) as a firewire target. There may be micro linux images that fit on a USB key and allow this. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
