On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM, marko b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, this IS an academic exercize. I've tried to outline the > motivations/justifications for wanting this particular functionality. > > I believe my architectural "why not?" and "is it possible?" question is > sufficiently valid. > > Its not about disk cost. Its about being able to grow the pool easily, and > without having to replace all the drives within the pool at the same time. > > Its about having the flexibility of not having to pre-determine what amount > of data I want protected against failure at the time I build the pool. > > This theoretical NAS doesn't exist yet. But I don't forsee being able to > build it out of a machine with more than 8 SATA bays. At this point, its > likely to be a cheap dell server with an external 4 bay enclosure. > > -Marko > -- > > <http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss>
It's about what you want in a home device, not what Sun's target enterprise market uses. I suggest looking into windows home server, it meets your requirements today. --Tim
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