Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: John.Murray on March 29, 2011, 07:56:50 pm
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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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Quite interesting, John - thanks for posting.
What options (if any) are available on the Windows side for ZFS or similar?
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at this point, natively - none :( of course, any filesystem can be shared across a network.
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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.
Best regards
Erik
at this point, natively - none :( of course, any filesystem can be shared across a network.
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Thanks, John, I'd thought this was dead. Great news, and thanks for the post!
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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