On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Robert Smicinski wrote: > Apple's strength is the desktop, Sun's is the datacenter.
Agreed, to a large extent. > There's no need to have ZFS on the desktop, just as there's no need > to have HFS+ in the datacenter. I strongly disagree with the first clause of that sentence. There's no reason why one wouldn't want to have mirrored file systems on a workstation, or make use of snapshots and clones. All three of those features are supplied rather handily by ZFS. ZFS isn't just about easily creating massive pools of data, although admitedly that is the first feature most people mention. > There is a need to improve ZFS in the datacenter, however, and I wish > Sun had invested their time in getting dynamic LUN expansion going > instead of working on a port to OS/X. I have no insider knowledge, but I don't think Sun invested much time in this. I believe Apple's engineers did most of the work. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
