Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

On 23 dec 2011, at 23:38, Chris Murphy <lists-zXQU9YWDTqjmlV4oE/1sFAC/[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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>> I'm not talking about big companies. I'm not talking about hundreds of terabytes. You are basically proposing a SAN for a single photographer or a single video workstation. And you're right, they would need a SAN on Mac OS because Mac OS lacks good storage management that exists for FREE to any Tom, Dick and Harry who downloads most any linux distribution because lvm is used by default in most of them. But Apple doesn't have that functionality.
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> But instead of going with a SAN, because this is complicated and expensive for a single photographer or videographer to accept, they most often will go with a cobbled together series of disks and arrays without any organization, with troublesome migration to new or larger disks, with a semi-fragile file system directly connected to the workstation. And it gets them into trouble - routinely. The most basic source of confusion is what drive their stuff is on.

Well they could of course use ZFS to make a good solution. zpool's seems to be a perfect match here and if they are serious about data integrity and sort of suffer a bit from having lots of different disks to achive enough of storage space I could not think of a better solution than ZFS. Yes a command line manegement is nessesary but on the other hand it is remarkably easy to manage your zpool's and have zraid or/and mirrors to give redundance to the soup. ZFS is definitely not just a filesystem but very much a management instrument as well.

// John Stalberg