ZFS (was Reliable Firewire drives)

[Dan Shoop]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:

> on 2008-01-10 9:24 AM, Dan Shoop at shoop at iwiring.net wrote:
>
>> You may also want to take a look at zfs which is now available
>> on OS X and working wonderfully so far and offers quite a lot of ease
>> in DAS management, far superior protection (even at a fil and block
>> level) that RAID, data intergrity (something not offered by RAID or
>> bare drives), data redundancy and backup.
>
> Do you have a reference handy for instructions on how to set ZFS up  
> (using
> external Firewire drives)? I haven't started looking into that yet.


ZFS is a /filesystem/. As such whether the "disks" are firewire or  
files on a volume the operations are the same.

have you bothered to Google?

-dhan

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