ZFS (was Reliable Firewire drives)

[LuKreme]

On 11-Jan-2008, at 20:06, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:50 PM, John Musbach wrote:
>>> While the framework is there for zfs support in Leopard currently  
>>> only
>>> read only support exists at this time.
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 4:34 AM, Dan Shoop <shoop at iwiring.net> wrote:
>
>> Not true.
>
> Leopard did not ship with write support for ZFS, and still does not  
> have it.

It did not ship with it, it is easily added.  Saying "only read only  
support exists" is simply wrong as r/w support quite definitely exists  
for Leopard.

> The 3rd-party port of ZFS to MacOS has a caveat list several bullet
> points long, one of which is that you cannot remove a firewire or USB
> device if it is part of a pool.

Naturally.

> Running ZFS on any sort of production environment on anything except  
> 64 bit Sun hardware w/Solaris means running on borrowed time, at  
> least for the moment.

I don't think that's quite true.

>  That is clearly demonstrated with Apple's refusal to release write  
> support as anything but a developer preview.

So, I'm confused.  You know r/w support exists yet you say it doesn't?

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