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A bit more background: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-making-its-way-to-mac-os-x.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how
by bri3d 15y ago
A bit more background:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-making-its-way-to-mac-os-x.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/how-zfs-is-slowly-...
The company was founded by Don Brady, who worked on the Apple ZFS for OSX project until it was cancelled.
Sadly, their website includes only marketing-buzzword compliant "tech specs" and contains no benchmarks, and there's no support for booting from ZFS. Hopefully they'll either get their act together or someone will pony up the $20 and post benchmarks and details (assuming, of course, that's not against the license).
- rjurney 15y agoEven on non-boot drives, ZFS can be a real boon. I used it for a 1U appliance on a solaris machine on two disks, and it saved me the cost of a RAID card.
- bri3d 15y agoRight - ZFS is awesome even as a non-boot storage pool. But one of the main drawbacks of MacZFS (the open-source competitor) is that it can't be booted off of, and this product doesn't seem to offer that feature as a competitive advantage. Presumably this product offers support for the latest zpool version and is based on a much more recent ZFS codebase (and hence should perform better as well), but because their site is so devoid of benchmarks, it's hard to tell.
- rjurney 15y agoLooks like Silver does mirroring, but not RAIDZ. I <3 RAIDZ. RAIDZ with snapshots helped me sleep at night.