> hardware RAID That's just the worst of all worlds: Usually proprietary and you get the extreme aversion to improvement (or any change really) of hardware ven

> hardware RAID That's just the worst of all worlds: Usually proprietary and you get the extreme aversion to improvement (or any change really) of hardware vendors. This ZFS changes is going to come, and it may end up being complex to implement for users... but it's happening. At the risk of being hyperbolic: Something like would never be possible with a HW raid system unless it had explicitly been designed for it from the start. Also: ZFS does much more than any hardware RAID ever did.