On 9 Jul 2010, at 20:38, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 15:02 -0400, Miles Nordin wrote: >>>>>>> "ab" == Alex Blewitt <alex.blew...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> ab> All Mac Minis have FireWire - the new ones have FW800. >> >> I tried attaching just two disks to a ZFS host using firewire, and it >> worked very badly for me. I found: >> >> 1. The solaris firewire stack isn't as good as the Mac OS one. > > Indeed. There has been some improvement here in the past year or two, > but I still wouldn't deem it ready for serious production work.
That may be true for Solaris; but not so for Mac OS X. And after all, that's what I'm working to get ZFS on. >> 3. The quality of software inside the firewire cases varies wildly >> and is a big source of stability problems. (even on mac) It would be good if you could refrain from spreading FUD if you don't have experience with it. I have used FW400 and FW800 on Mac systems for the last 8 years; the only problem was with the Oxford 911 chipset in OSX 10.1 days. Since then, I've not experienced any issues to do with the bus itself. It may not suit everyone's needs, and it may not be supported well on OpenSolaris, but it works fine on a Mac. Alex _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
