On Apr 17, 2007, at 7:47 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 17-Apr-07, at 8:33 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote:
Hello Rayson,
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 10:50:41 AM, you wrote:
RH> On 4/17/07, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about asking Microsoft to change Shared Source first??
Let's leave ms out of this, eh? :-)
RH> While ZFS is nice, I don't think it is a must for most desktop
users.
RH> For servers and power users, yes. But most (over 90% of world
RH> population) people who just use the computers to browse the
web, check
RH> emails, do word processing, etc... don't care. Even if they do
care, I
RH> don't think those who do not backup their drive can really
understand
RH> how to use ZFS.
I belive that ZFS definitely belongs on a desktop,
Apple (and I) assuredly agree with you.
I would agree as well. With the proper UI (which I hope Apple has or
will eventually have -- waiting to get Leopard! as I have not yet
renewed my paid developer program at Apple) ZFS is a killer on the
desktop, especially on OS X where everything of importance has to be
or likes to live on the boot device (I understand that OS X does not
yet support booting on ZFS but someday it will), but on any consumer
class desktop it is killer because it removes the need to worry about
disks from the end user. You need more space, buy a new disk or two
and then just add them into the "pool" of storage.
What's interesting about its integration in OS X - and OS X in
general - is it diffuses hitherto "server grade" technology (UNIX,
inter alia) all the way down to everybody's grandmother's non-
technical desktop/MacBook. Steve definitely proved his point
(starting with NeXT, of course); Linux and Solaris will inevitably
arrive there too. To M********'s detriment :-)
Yep
Chad
--Toby
mostly for its
built-in reliability, free snapshots, built-in compression and
cryptography (soon) and easy to use.
ps. few days ago I encountered my first checksum error on my
desktop system on a submirror (two sata drives in a zfs
mirror). Thanks to zfs it
won't be a problem and it's already repaired.
--
Best regards,
Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://milek.blogspot.com
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