Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

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> On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Scott Lewis wrote:
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>> Defend? No. There are tons of storage vendors. Apple isn't one. Few can be. That's why lh, equallogic, Compellent and 3par have all been acquired in the past few years. 
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> Storage management is not a 3rd party solution. It is something Apple would have to provide. Very few people will trust logical volume management or a file system from a 3rd party. It's questionable at best if such a thing would have bootloader support. LVM is a kernel space implementation, it requires integration with a device mapper.
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> To get real management also means online volume resizing, online relocation of data from one drive to another, and snapshots. I can't imagine a 3rd party touching this who does not have the ability to issue a custom kernel.

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