[zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Rodrigo E . De León Plicet
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/09/2336223/Apple-Removes-Nearly-All-Reference-To-ZFS Maybe Apple will drop the server version of OS-X and will eliminate their only server hardware (Xserve) since all it manages to do is lose money

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread C. Bergström
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Only a lunatic would rely on Apple for a mission-critical server application. It's funny, but I suspect you just called a large portion of the mac userbase lunatics.. While my reasons my differ I wouldn't disagree ;) ./C ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Aaron Blew
That's quite a blanket statement. MANY companies (including Oracle) purchased Xserve RAID arrays for important applications because of their price point and capabilities. You easily could buy two Xserve RAIDs and mirror them for what comparable arrays of the time cost. -Aaron On Wed, Jun 10, 20

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Aaron Blew wrote: > That's quite a blanket statement.  MANY companies (including Oracle) > purchased Xserve RAID arrays for important applications because of their > price point and capabilities.  You easily could buy two Xserve RAIDs and > mirror them for what comp

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Toby Thain
On 10-Jun-09, at 7:25 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Aaron Blew wrote: That's quite a blanket statement. MANY companies (including Oracle) purchased Xserve RAID arrays for important applications because of their price point and capabilities. You easily could buy

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Rich Teer
It's not pertinent to this sub-thread, but zfs (albeit read-only) is already in currently shipping MacOS 10.5. SO presumably it'll be in MacOS 10.6... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread Jerry K
There is a pretty active apple ZFS sourceforge group that provides RW bits for 10.5. Things are oddly quiet concerning 10.6. I am curious about how this will turn out myself. Jerry Rich Teer wrote: It's not pertinent to this sub-thread, but zfs (albeit read-only) is already in currently s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread Paul van der Zwan
On 11 jun 2009, at 10:48, Jerry K wrote: There is a pretty active apple ZFS sourceforge group that provides RW bits for 10.5. Things are oddly quiet concerning 10.6. I am curious about how this will turn out myself. Jerry Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread Sami Ketola
On 11 Jun 2009, at 12:44, Paul van der Zwan wrote: Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the disk usage of Snow Leopard is 6 GB less than Leopard mostly because of compression. Either they have implemented compressed binaries or they use filesystem compression. Neither

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread Paul van der Zwan
On 11 jun 2009, at 11:48, Sami Ketola wrote: On 11 Jun 2009, at 12:44, Paul van der Zwan wrote: Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the disk usage of Snow Leopard is 6 GB less than Leopard mostly because of compression. Either they have implemented compressed binarie

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread Chris Ridd
On 11 Jun 2009, at 10:52, Paul van der Zwan wrote: On 11 jun 2009, at 11:48, Sami Ketola wrote: On 11 Jun 2009, at 12:44, Paul van der Zwan wrote: Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the disk usage of Snow Leopard is 6 GB less than Leopard mostly because of compre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread Wes Felter
Paul van der Zwan wrote: Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the disk usage of Snow Leopard is 6 GB less than Leopard mostly because of compression. Either they have implemented compressed binaries or they use filesystem compression. Neither feature is present in Leopard

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread David Magda
On Jun 11, 2009, at 05:44, Paul van der Zwan wrote: Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the disk usage of Snow Leopard is 6 GB less than Leopard mostly because of compression. It's probably 6 GB because Leopard (10.5) ran on both Intel and PowerPC chips ("Universal"