Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

> OK first you critique that Apple is out of the enterprise market, and is happy without meeting enterprise needs. So I point out that this has consequences for people who are not enterprise, and thus do not really have need for a SAN in the context given. But you say, of course you can get around the example storage problem by getting a SAN and connecting a Mac to it.
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> Naturally such a Mac user would need a SAN to get logical volume management, because Mac OS doesn't have logical volume management, or a particularly resilient file system.
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> It's not necessary to solve this problem with a SAN on linux, because there is very good lvm (online storage resizing, data relocation, and rw snapshots) and more resilient file systems available. 

Who critiqued them? They aren't interested in selling enterprise servers and sans. That's just reality, and not necessarily a critique. In the same way that EMC doesn't care about laptops. 

That said, big companies have SANs. Macs can play with those. That was the answer to what shops do when they need to have video editing setups with hundreds of terabytes. Apple doesn't need to supply the drives, servers or tape libraries to have Final Cut Pro editing video in those shops. 

I've been in those shops. There are plenty of Macs. But no Apple enterprise hardware.