Actually, I think it's smaller companies and home users who want this most. Sun target enterprises with their storage kit which tends to be servers that are fully populated with drives. Look at the thumper for example - a 4U server that already comes with 48 drives. You're not going to be adding or removing drives from that, it's pretty much a drop in storage box.
There has been a lot of talk over the last year about making it possible to remove drives, and I believe Sun are working on the code to do this. It sounds like it's quite a complicated thing to do however, so it's likely to be a good while before it happens. For now it just needs to be accepted as one of the limitations of ZFS. It's easy enough to work around when you know about it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
