On Oct 9, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Dan wrote: > Locking was done at the record, block, and file level. Very cool. Very > disappointing that this type of high reliability file system went the way of > the dodo, except for enterprise Unix solutions. It's something that I think > OS X should have had built-in since 10.1. sigh. Defeat from the jaws of > victory. sigh.
Not really. It took a while but a SAN does all of that and more CPUs don't ever have to know anything about available storage, it's like they're automagically growing hard drives. Why build somethingnto the OS you don't need to, when you just connect to the storage appliance like it was another hard drive. The DEC solution above restricts you to all systems runnig the same OS. A SAN doesn't care what the front end OS is. And the thing is, OS X DID have high-reliability file systems built in since 10.1: NFS. NFS is high speed, high reliablity and only a moderate pain in the ass to manage. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
