On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:04 PM, marko b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darren, > > Perhaps I misspoke when I said that it wasn't about cost. It is _partially_ > about cost. > > Monetary cost of drives isn't a major concern. At about $110-150 each. > Loss of efficiency (mirroring 50%), zraid1 (25%), is a concern. > Expense of sata bays, either in a single chassis or an external chassis is > a concern. > Expense of replacing entire pool sets of disks to grow is a concern. > > At this point zraid seems to be my only choice if I want 3TB of actual > space. I may gain some benefit by using compression. >
Windows Home Server doesn't help me because I want xvm, iscsi and nfs. But > the 'features' of WHS do approximate this fantasy setup I outlined. > Windows home server will eventually have hyper-v, and currently has virtualbox or vmware workstation/server. iSCSI? There's an iscsi initiator built in. If you're talking iscsi targets, let me tell you right now you're fricking nuts if you think you're going to run iSCSI target backed by a non-redundant SATA disk. If you insist, that's already been created as well: http://www.rocketdivision.com/wind.html NFS can be had with services for unix, or hummingbird software if you have something against free nfs. It's included in vista. > > Mirroring: > > Let me see if I'm understanding your suggestion. A stripe of mirrored > pairs. I can grow by resizing an existing mirrored pair, or just attaching > another mirrored pair to the stripe? > > This gives me growth capability at the cost of 50% disk capacity and > requiring a large amount of sata ports/bays. > > I'm still holding out for an answer to my original question. :) > Your original question has been answered: Sun's market has absolutely no use for those features. They aren't building zfs features for home users that make them no money. They're a business, their goal is to make money. You have the source, feel free to code it if you want it ;) Just don't expect to ever see it from Sun.
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