On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Freddie Cash wrote:
> As an FS for their TimeMachine NAS boxes (Time Capsule, I think),
> though, ZFS would be a good fit. Similar to how the Time Slider works
> in Sun/Oracle's version of Nautilus/GNOME2. Especially if they expand
> the boxes to use 4 drives (2x mirror), and had the pool
> pre-configured.
Agreed.
> As a desktop/laptop FS, though, ZFS (in its current incarnation) is
> overkill and unwieldy. Especially since most of these machines only
> have room for a single HD.
I respectfully disagree: end-to-end checksums are always a good thing,
and simple single-drive {desk,lap}top could use a single pool and gain
all the benfits of ZFS with none of the "unweildyness", although again
I disagree that ZFS is unweildy.
> > There would likely be a market if someone was to sell pre-packaged zfs for
> > Apple OS-X at a much higher price than the operating system itself.
10's Complement (?) are planning such a thing, although I have no idea
on their pricing. The software is still in development.
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