ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

[Phil Larson]

On Jun 7, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Michael Winter wrote:

>> Bring home a new drive, plug it in, and your single disk just got  
>> bigger.  That's it, done.
>
> That's all good, but raises another question. What happens when one  
> of those drives goes bad?
>
> Or, along similar lines, what happens if you're using a Firewire  
> drive in this manner and it suddenly goes missing (unplugged,  
> driver trouble...)?

I suppose you end up with the same result as having your ONLY drive  
go bad. I don't think there's anyway they're going to make adding a  
new disk increase the primary pool's size by default. It's going to  
be something in Disk Utility. Backups are still and always have been  
your problem.

Phil