Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS back on Mac OS X

2011-03-15 Thread Alex Blewitt
MacZFS has been running on OSX since Apple dropped the ball, but only up to 
onnv_74 for the stable branch. 

Alex

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On 15 Mar 2011, at 15:21, Jerry Kemp sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc wrote:

 FYI.
 
 This came across a Mac OS X server list that I am subscribed to.
 
 Jerry
 
 
 
 +
 Don Brady, former senior Apple engineer has started a company to bring
 what appears to be a commercially supported version of ZFS to OS X.
 
 Ten's Complement: http://info.tenscomplement.com/
 
 Details are sparse, but they have a twitter feed and email newsletter.
 When I signed up I got a invitation to join the beta program.
 
 From his twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/tenscomplement):
 
 $ uname -prs
 Darwin 10.6.0 i386
 $ zpool upgrade
 This system is currently running ZFS pool version 28.
 
 
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-11 Thread Alex Blewitt


On Dec 11, 2010, at 14:15, Frank Van Damme wrote:


2010/12/10 Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com:

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey
opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote:
It's been a while since I last heard anybody say anything about  
this.
What's the latest version of publicly released ZFS?  Has oracle  
made it

closed-source moving forward?

Nexenta ... openindiana ... etc ... Are they all screwed?


ZFSv28 is available for FreeBSD 9-CURRENT.

We won't know until after Oracle releases Solaris 11 whether or not
they'll live up to their promise to open the source to ZFSv31.  Until
Solaris 11 is released, there's really not much point in debating it.


And if they don't, it will be Sad, both in terms of useful code not
being available to a wide community to review and amend, as in terms
of Oracle not really getting the point about open source development.


I think it's a known fact that Oracle hasn't got the point of open  
source development. Forks ahoy!


http://www.jroller.com/niclas/entry/apache_leaves_jcp_ec
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Re: [zfs-discuss] non-ECC Systems and ZFS for home users

2010-09-26 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 25 Sep 2010, at 19:56, Giovanni Tirloni gtirl...@sysdroid.com wrote:

 We have correctable memory errors on ECC systems on a monthly basis. It's not 
 if they'll happen but how often.

DRAM Errors in the wild: a large-scale field study is worth a read if you 
have time. 

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

Alex
(@alblue on Twitter)
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Re: [zfs-discuss] mirrored pool unimportable (FAULTED)

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 28 Aug 2010, at 16:25, Norbert Harder n.har...@d3vnull.de wrote:

 Later, since the development of the ZFS extension was discontinued ...

The MacZFS project lives on at Google Code and http://github.com/alblue/mac-zfs

Not that it helps if the data has already become corrupted. 

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirrored raidz

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 26 Jul 2010, at 19:51, Dav Banks davba...@virginia.edu wrote:

 I wanted to test it as a backup solution. Maybe that's crazy in itself but I 
 want to try it.
 
 Basically, once a week detach the 'backup' pool from the mirror, replace the 
 drives, add the new raidz to the mirror and let it resilver and sit for a 
 week.

Why not do it the other way around? Create a pool which consists of mirrored 
pairs (or triples) of drives. You don't need raidz to make it appear that the 
pool is bigger and it will use disks in the pool appropriately. If you want to 
have more copies of data, set copies=2 and zfs will try to schedule writes 
across different mirrored pairs. 

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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 25 Jul 2010, at 14:12, Ben ben.lav...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've read a small amount about compression, enough to find that it'll effect 
 performance (not a problem for me) and that once you enable compression it 
 only effects new files written to the file system.  

Yes, that's true. Compression on defaults to lzjb which is fast; but gzip-9 can 
be twice as good. (I've just done some tests on the MacZFS port on my blog for 
more info)

 Is this still true of b134?  And if it is, how can I compress all of the 
 current data on the file system?  Do I have to move it off then back on?

Any changes to the filesystem only take effect on newly written/updated files. 
You could do a cp to force a rewrite but in the interim would take space for 
the old and new copies; furthermore, if you have snapshots, then even removing 
the old (uncompressed) files won't get the space back. 

If you destroy all snapshots, then do a cp/rm on a file by file basis you may 
be able to do an in-place compression. 

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-09 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 9 Jul 2010, at 08:55, James Van Artsdalen james-opensola...@jrv.org wrote:

 On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
 Yep.  Provided it supported ZFS, a Mac Mini makes for
 a compelling SOHO server.
 
 Warning: a Mac Mini does not have eSATA ports for external storage.  It's 
 dangerous to use USB for external storage since many (most? all?) USB-SATA 
 chips discard SYNC instead of passing FLUSH to the drive - very bad for ZFS.

All Mac Minis have FireWire - the new ones have FW800. In any case, the server 
class mini has two internal hard drives which make them amenable to mirroring. 

The Mac ZFS port limps on in any case - though I've not managed to spend much 
time on it recently, I have been making progress this week. 

The Google code project is at http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ and my Github is 
at http://github.com/alblue/ for those that are interested. 

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-09 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 9 Jul 2010, at 20:38, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

 On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 15:02 -0400, Miles Nordin wrote:
 ab == Alex Blewitt alex.blew...@gmail.com writes:
 
ab All Mac Minis have FireWire - the new ones have FW800.
 
 I tried attaching just two disks to a ZFS host using firewire, and it
 worked very badly for me.  I found:
 
 1. The solaris firewire stack isn't as good as the Mac OS one.
 
 Indeed.  There has been some improvement here in the past year or two,
 but I still wouldn't deem it ready for serious production work.

That may be true for Solaris; but not so for Mac OS X. And after all, that's 
what I'm working to get ZFS on.

 3. The quality of software inside the firewire cases varies wildly
and is a big source of stability problems.  (even on mac)

It would be good if you could refrain from spreading FUD if you don't have 
experience with it. I have used FW400 and FW800 on Mac systems for the last 8 
years; the only problem was with the Oxford 911 chipset in OSX 10.1 days. Since 
then, I've not experienced any issues to do with the bus itself. 

It may not suit everyone's needs, and it may not be supported well on 
OpenSolaris, but it works fine on a Mac.

Alex

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Alex Blewitt

On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:43, Joerg Schilling wrote:


Jason King ja...@ansipunx.net wrote:

Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is  
GPL

licensed, but I don't think that's the case.


As explained in depth in a previous posting, there is absolutely no  
legal
problem with putting the CDDLd original ZFS implementation into the  
Linux

kernel.


You are sadly mistaken.

From GNU.org on license compatibilities:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), version 1.0
	This is a free software license. It has a copyleft with a scope  
that's similar to the one in the Mozilla Public License, which makes  
it incompatible with the GNU GPL. This means a module covered by the  
GPL and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked  
together. We urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason.


	Also unfortunate in the CDDL is its use of the term “intellectual  
property”.


Whether a license is classified as Open Source or not does not imply  
that all open source licenses are compatible with each other.


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Re: [zfs-discuss] Native ZFS for Linux

2010-06-11 Thread Alex Blewitt

On Jun 11, 2010, at 11:03, Joerg Schilling wrote:


Alex Blewitt alex.blew...@gmail.com wrote:


On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:43, Joerg Schilling wrote:


Jason King ja...@ansipunx.net wrote:


Well technically they could start with the GRUB zfs code, which is
GPL
licensed, but I don't think that's the case.


As explained in depth in a previous posting, there is absolutely no
legal
problem with putting the CDDLd original ZFS implementation into the
Linux
kernel.


You are sadly mistaken.

From GNU.org on license compatibilities:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html


What you read there is completely wrong :-(

The FSF even knows that it is wrong as the FSF did never sue Veritas
for publishing a modified version of GNU tar that links against
close source libs from veritas.

The best you can do is to ignore it and to ask independent lawyers.

I encourage you to read my other post that in depth explains why the  
FSF

publishes incorrect claims.


There was nothing there other than fluff from a different website,  
though. And your argument Look, it says it's Open Source here means  
that they are compatible is not the generally held position of almost  
everyone else who has looked into this.


The GPL doesn't prevent you doing things. However, it does withdraw  
the agreement that you are permitted to copy someone else's work if  
you do those things. So whilst one can compile and link code together,  
you may not have the rights to use other's code without every  
committers individual agreement that you can copy their code.


The GPL doesn't prevent; it just withdraws rights - without which, you  
may be breaking copyright. And the GPL has been tested a number of  
times in court with regards to copyright violations where the GPL no  
longer covers you to do the same.


As an observation, the Eclipse Foundation lawyers have agreed that the  
GPL is incompatible with the EPL for the same reasons:


http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#GPLCOMPATIBLE

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Re: [zfs-discuss] why both dedup and compression?

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Blewitt
Dedup came much later than compression. Also, compression saves both  
space and therefore load time even when there's only one copy. It is  
especially good for e.g. HTML or man page documentation which tends to  
compress very well (versus binary formats like images or MP3s that  
don't).


It gives me an extra, say, 10g on my laptop's 80g SSD which isn't bad.

Alex

Sent from my (new) iPhone

On 6 May 2010, at 02:06, Richard Jahnel rich...@ellipseinc.com wrote:


I've googled this for a bit, but can't seem to find the answer.

What does compression bring to the party that dedupe doesn't cover  
already?


Thank you for you patience and answers.
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-23 Thread Alex Blewitt

On 22 Apr 2010, at 20:50, Rich Teer rich.t...@rite-group.com wrote:


On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alex Blewitt wrote:

Hi Alex,


For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on
at http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard
from there and we're working on moving forwards from the ancient pool
support to something more recent. I've relatively recently merged in
the onnv-gate repository (at build 72) which should make things  
easier

to track in the future.


That's good to hear!  I thought Apple yanking ZFS support from Mac  
OS was

a really dumb idea.  Do you work for Apple?


No, the entire effort is community based. Please feel free to join up  
to the mailing list from the project page if you're interested in ZFS  
on Mac OSX.


Alex
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Blewitt
Rich, Shawn,

 Of course, it probably doesn't help that Apple, in their infinite wisdom, 
 canned
 native suport for ZFS in Snow Leopard (idiots).

For your information, the ZFS project lives (well, limps really) on at 
http://code.google.com/p/mac-zfs. You can get ZFS for Snow Leopard from there 
and we're working on moving forwards from the ancient pool support to something 
more recent. I've relatively recently merged in the onnv-gate repository (at 
build 72) which should make things easier to track in the future.

 Ah.  The file systems I'm trying to use are locally attached to the server, 
 and
 shared via NFS.

What are the problems? I have read-write files over a (Mac-exported) ZFS share 
via NFS to Mac clients, and that has no problem at all. It's possible that it 
could be permissions related, especially if you're using NFSv4 - AFAIK the Mac 
client is an alpha stage of that on Snow Leopard. 

You could try listing the files (from OSX) with ls -...@e which should show you 
all the extended attributes and ACLs to see if that's causing a problem.

Alex
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/OSOL/Firewire...

2010-03-19 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 19 Mar 2010, at 15:30, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

 On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Khyron wrote:
 Getting better FireWire performance on OpenSolaris would be nice though.
 Darwin drivers are open...hmmm.
 
 OS-X is only (legally) used on Apple hardware.  Has anyone considered that 
 since Firewire is important to Apple, they may have selected a particular 
 Firewire chip which performs particularly well?

Darwin is open-source.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1486.2.11/
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/IOFireWireFamily/IOFireWireFamily-417.4.0/

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Re: [zfs-discuss] USB 3.0 possibilities

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Blewitt

On Feb 22, 2010, at 18:02, Richard Elling wrote:


On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:46 AM, A. Krijgsman wrote:

Today I received a commecial offer on some external USB 3.0 disk  
enclosure.
Since it was new to me I googled my way to wikipedia and found that  
the specs say

USB 3.0 should have a 5 Gbit speeds capability.
Could it be an interesting solution to build a very cheap storage  
area network?
( Ofcourse ZFS in the middle to manage the shares. ) Or is this  
wishfull (e.g. bad) thinking?


It all depends on if the USB disk honors cache flush commands.


'Cheap' is the keyword - you get what you pay for. I found with some  
USB drives that ZFS scrubs were showing hundreds of checksum errors,  
so I ditched the drives straight away. The problem is more the  
firmware rather than the interface itself; but you won't know until  
you find it.


On the other hand, I've not found drives with FireWire 800 support to  
have problems, and in any case, FW800 has a better real-world  
throughput than USB2. By the time you go much above it, you end up  
with a single drive's spindle being the bottleneck rather than the bus  
- though of course, multiple drives will start to fill up a bus anyway.


It's worth noting that USB leeches control from the host computer, so  
even if the bandwidth is there, the performance might not be for  
several competing drives on the same bus, regardless of how big the  
number is printed.


Here's some (old) analysis of ZFS and HFS on USB and firewire:

http://alblue.blogspot.com/2008/04/review-iomega-ultramax-and-hfz-vs-zfs.html

How much that translates over to USB 3, I don't know, but there's a  
difference between 'theoretical' and 'practical'. It would be good to  
see what kind of performance numbers you can come up with, or if you  
run into the same kind of problems with USB that existed for slower  
models. (Sadly, the planned FW3200 seems to have disappeared into a  
hole in the ground.)


Alex
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression on Clearcase

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Blewitt
On 4 Feb 2010, at 16:35, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

 On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Darren J Moffat wrote:
 Thanks - IBM basically haven't test clearcase with ZFS compression 
 therefore, they don't support currently. Future may change, as such my 
 customer cannot use compression. I have asked IBM for roadmap info to find 
 whether/when it will be supported.
 
 That is FUD generation in my opinion and being overly cautious.  The whole 
 point of the POSIX interfaces to a filesystem is that applications don't 
 actually care how the filesystem stores their data.
 
 Clearcase itself implements a versioning filesystem so perhaps it is not 
 being overly cautious.  Compression could change aspects such as how free 
 space is reported.

I'd also like to echo Bob's observations here. Darren's FUDFUD is based on 
limited experience of ClearCase, I expect ...

On the client side, ClearCase actually presnets itself as a mounted filesystem, 
regardless of what the OS has under the covers. In other words, a ClearCase 
directory will never be 'ZFS' because it's not ZFS, it's ClearCaseFS. On the 
server side (which might be the case here) the way ClearCase works is to 
represent the files and contents in a way more akin to a database (e.g. Oracle) 
than traditional file-system approaches to data (e.g. CVS, SVN). In much the 
same way there are app-specific issues with ZFS (e.g. matching block-sizes, 
dealing with ZFS snapshots on a VM image and so forth) there may well be some 
with ClearCase.

At the very least, though, IBM may just be unable/willing to test it at the 
time and put their stamp of approval on it. In many cases for IBM products, 
there are supported platforms (often with specific patch levels), much like 
there are offically supported Solaris platforms and hot-fixes to go for certain 
applications. They may well just being cautious in what there is until they've 
had time to test it out for themselves - or more likely, until the first set of 
paying customers wants to get invoiced for the investigation. But to claim it's 
FUD without any real data to back it up is just FUD^2.

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread Alex Blewitt

On 24 Dec 2009, at 10:33, Mattias Pantzare pant...@ludd.ltu.se wrote:


On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:36, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote:



An EFI label isn't OS specific formatting!


It is. Not all OS will read an EFI label.


You misunderstood the concept of OS specific, I feel. EFI is indeed OS  
independent; however, that doesn't necesssarily imply that all OSs can  
read EFI disks. My Commodore 128D could boot CP/M but couldn't  
understand FAT32 - that doesn't mean that therefore FAT32 isn't OS  
independent either.


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Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread Alex Blewitt

On 24 Dec 2009, at 21:27, Mattias Pantzare pant...@ludd.ltu.se wrote:


An EFI label isn't OS specific formatting!


It is. Not all OS will read an EFI label.


You misunderstood the concept of OS specific, I feel. EFI is indeed  
OS
independent; however, that doesn't necesssarily imply that all OSs  
can read
EFI disks. My Commodore 128D could boot CP/M but couldn't  
understand FAT32 -

that doesn't mean that therefore FAT32 isn't OS independent either.


On a PC EFI is very OS specific as most OS on that platform does not
support EFI.



Still false, I'm afraid. There is nothing OS specific about EFI,  
regardless of whether any given OS supports EFI or not. Nor does it  
need to be a PC - I have several Mac PPCs that can read EFI  
partitioned disks (as well as some Intel ones). These can also be read  
by other systems that understand EFI partitioned disks.


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Re: [zfs-discuss] What can I get with 2x250Gb ?

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Blewitt
If you want any kind of data guarantee, you need to go for a mirrored  
pool. If you don't want a data guarantee, you can create a single pool  
(non-mirrored) of the two devs which will give you 500Gb. The key is  
in the 'zpool create' command


zpool create twofifty mirror disk1 disk2
zpool create fivehundred disk1 disk2

Alex

On Nov 8, 2009, at 15:09, Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk) wrote:


Hello,

I'm sure this question has been asked many times already, but I  
couldn't find the answer myself. Anyway I have a laptop with 2  
identical hard disks 250Gb each, I'm currently using Linux on RAID0  
which gave me ~500Gb..


I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD but I want to know before I do,  
what can I get with these hard disks? do I get ~500Gb or less? can  
ZFS be setup to use RAIDz with only 2 hard disks ?


Thank you

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Location of ZFS documentation (source)?

2009-11-04 Thread Alex Blewitt

On 3 Nov 2009, at 14:48, Cindy Swearingen wrote:


Alex,

You can download the man page source files from this URL:

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current/


FYI there's a couple of nits in the man pages:

* the zpool create synopsis hits the 80 char mark. Might be better to  
fit on several lines e.g.


   zpool create [-fn] [-o property=value] ...
   [-O file-system-property=value] ...
   [-m mountpoint] [-R root] pool vdev ...

* same for the zpool import
* There's a few bold open square brackets when there probably  
shouldn't be;

zfs.1m:\fB[\fB-ug\fR] \fIeveryone\fR|\fIuser\fR|\fIgroup\fR[,...]\fR
zfs.1m:\fB[\fB-e\fR] \fIperm\fR|@\fIsetname\fR[,...]\fR
zfs.1m:\fB[\fB-ld\fR] \fIfilesystem\fR|\fIvolume\fR\fR
zpool.1m:\fB[\fB-O\fR \fIfile-system-property=value\fR] ...\fR
-
zfs.1m:[\fB-ug\fR] \fIeveryone\fR|\fIuser\fR|\fIgroup\fR[,...]\fR
zfs.1m:[\fB-e\fR] \fIperm\fR|@\fIsetname\fR[,...]\fR
zfs.1m:[\fB-ld\fR] \fIfilesystem\fR|\fIvolume\fR\fR
zpool.1m:[\fB-O\fR \fIfile-system-property=value\fR] ...\fR

* zpool upgrade looks like it's an older message,
zpool.1m:This system is currently running ZFS version 2.
-
 # zpool upgrade -a
 This system is currently running ZFS pool version 8.

 All pools are formatted using this version.

This is confusing, especially since ZFS filesystem version 2 is the  
default:

# zfs upgrade
This system is currently running ZFS filesystem version 2.

Alex
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[zfs-discuss] Location of ZFS documentation (source)?

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Blewitt
The man pages documentation from the old Apple port
(http://github.com/alblue/mac-zfs/tree/master/zfs_documentation/man8/)
don't seem to have a corresponding source file in the onnv-gate
repository (http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+onnv/WebHome)
although I've found the text on-line
(http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zfs-1m)

Can anyone point me to where these are stored, so that we can update
the documentation in the Apple fork?

Alex
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Re: [zfs-discuss] automate zpool scrub

2009-11-01 Thread Alex Blewitt
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Vano Beridze vanua...@gmail.com wrote:
 Now I've logged in and there was a mail saying that cron did not found zpool

 it's in my path
 which zpool
 /usr/sbin/spool

 Does cron use different PATH setting?

Yes. Typically your PATH is set up by various shell initialisations
which may not get run for Cron jobs. In any case, it's safer to assume
it's not.

 Is it ok to specify /usr/sbin/zpool in crontab file?

It is in fact preferable to specify fully qualified paths in crontabs
generally, so yes.

Alex
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[zfs-discuss] Apple cans ZFS project

2009-10-24 Thread Alex Blewitt
Apple has finally canned [1] the ZFS port [2]. To try and keep momentum up and 
continue to use the best filing system available, a group of fans have set up a 
continuation project and mailing list [3,4].

If anyone's interested in joining in to help, please join in the mailing list.

[1] http://alblue.blogspot.com/2009/10/apple-finally-kill-off-zfs.html
[2] http://zfs.macosforge.org
[3] http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/
[4] http://groups.google.com/group/zfs-macos
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