ZFS (was Reliable Firewire drives)

[Eugene]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 04:29:33PM CST, Justin C. Walker <justin at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2008, at 14:00 , John Musbach wrote:
>> On Jan 13, 2008 4:36 AM, Finlay Dobbie <finlay.dobbie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There does exist a shipping, final r/o ZFS implementation in Leopard
>>> out of the box.
>>> There does exist a pre-release r/w ZFS implementation available via
>>> either ADC or MacOSForge.
>>> There does NOT exist a supported, shipping, final r/w ZFS implementation.
>>
>> This is false, the implementation shipping with Leopard is READ ONLY!!!
>
> Which part of Finlay's mail is false?   The part where he says that
>   - there *is* a shipping r/o implementation of ZFS in Leopard?
>                           ^^^
>   - there *is* a r/w implementation on sourceforge?
>                  ^^^
>   - there *is not* a r/w shipping implementation in (say) Mac OS X?
>                      ^^^
>   - everyone is in agreement?

Hey, I'm enjoying this flame fest.  Stop trying to put out the fire
with the facts.  We need people like Linus Torvalds who could step
in and exclaim, "ZFS has nothing to do with me or the kernel."

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departing factual territories... entering bruised-ego land...
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Eugene
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