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I think I had basically an identical journey to you, through the same ZFS versions. Zevo was really exciting at the time to have a professional looking org behi

by hnbear 4y ago

I think I had basically an identical journey to you, through the same ZFS versions. Zevo was really exciting at the time to have a professional looking org behind it, and they came out with a real Sys Prefs plug-in and everything. They'd hired one of the Apple file system devs too. I even wrote my own menu-bar tool way back when - https://github.com/alexwasserman/ZFSStatusScript https://github.com/alexwasserman/ZFSStatusScript Was 8 years ago - no idea if it still works. A while back I moved to just running ZFS on my home lab machines and then exporting over the network to use as necessary.

xoa 4y ago
Yeah, I was part of the Z-410/ZEVO beta. It was exciting at the time, quite responsive to our concerns, solid progress. But things fell through with funding or something went wrong in the company I guess. I'll always kind of wonder what might have been on that too, if crowd funding had been a bit more developed maybe. Another smaller layer of "maybes" added on top of what might have been with Apple I guess. It didn't help either that was right around when Apple was abandoning the Mac Pro. IIRC OpenZFS was just starting to kick off around then, still years too early to be of any help to ZEVO. >A while back I moved to just running ZFS on my home lab machines and then exporting over the network to use as necessary. Yeah, it's a decent approach for desktops in particular, and made better by the plummeting cost of higher speed LAN connections. 10 Gbps is cheap and easy at this point, and even faster is getting there. I'm glad to still have O3X around for portable systems though.
- hnbear 4y ago
  There was definitely a period where O3X was behind but Zevo was dying and I couldn't update because of ZFS version conflicts. Lead to some leaps of faith in beta O3X to get up onto it and the community was pretty active. And still more active today than I'd expect too.

by hnbear 4y ago

xoa 4y ago

Yeah, I was part of the Z-410/ZEVO beta. It was exciting at the time, quite responsive to our concerns, solid progress. But things fell through with funding or something went wrong in the company I guess. I'll always kind of wonder what might have been on that too, if crowd funding had been a bit more developed maybe. Another smaller layer of "maybes" added on top of what might have been with Apple I guess. It didn't help either that was right around when Apple was abandoning the Mac Pro. IIRC OpenZFS was just starting to kick off around then, still years too early to be of any help to ZEVO. >A while back I moved to just running ZFS on my home lab machines and then exporting over the network to use as necessary. Yeah, it's a decent approach for desktops in particular, and made better by the plummeting cost of higher speed LAN connections. 10 Gbps is cheap and easy at this point, and even faster is getting there. I'm glad to still have O3X around for portable systems though.

hnbear 4y ago
There was definitely a period where O3X was behind but Zevo was dying and I couldn't update because of ZFS version conflicts. Lead to some leaps of faith in beta O3X to get up onto it and the community was pretty active. And still more active today than I'd expect too.