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John.Murray

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ZFS for Mac
« on: March 29, 2011, 07:56:50 pm »

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-making-its-way-to-mac-os-x.ars

I was very dissapointed to hear Apple was dropping ZFS support from the upcoming Lion release.  Looks like one of the original developers of HFS+ has been busy!  IMHO this is *great* news for photographers as we can finally get past monolithic RAID disk systems and their inherent issues when dealing with failed spindles.
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Re: ZFS for Mac
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2011, 10:28:36 pm »

Quite interesting, John - thanks for posting.

What options (if any) are available on the Windows side for ZFS or similar?
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Re: ZFS for Mac
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2011, 11:33:19 pm »

at this point, natively - none :(  of course, any filesystem can be shared across a network.
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Re: ZFS for Mac
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2011, 11:57:38 pm »

Hi,

I guess that some of the functionality may be lost when a file system is shared over the network, specially if the sharing protocol (CIFS, NFS) doesn't support certain features of the file system.

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at this point, natively - none :(  of course, any filesystem can be shared across a network.
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Re: ZFS for Mac
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2011, 12:06:53 am »

Thanks, John, I'd thought this was dead.  Great news, and thanks for the post!
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Re: ZFS for Mac
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2011, 12:48:38 am »

Erik, your correct at this point

The compelling advantage of a ZFS filesystem is it's shear capacity, along with data integrity; a highly fault tolerant 20-40TB system can be built using relatively inexpensive off the shelf SATA controllers and Drives.  In addition, capacity expansion is quite straightforward.

ZFS also supports an enhanced set of ACL's similar to NTFS.  In addition, ZFS natively supports snapshots;  similar to Windows Volume Shadow Copy (also available across a network), or Apple's Time Machine.

I would be very suprised to not see these enhanced capabilities, eventually available via network shares (as is currently the case with Windows SMB and Active Directory).  Time will tell.....  the key here is that the host O/S will determine network capabilites, not the FS itself

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbcik/index.html


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