- Softraid mountain lion mac os#
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- Softraid mountain lion mac#
If you want the storage attached directly options are definitely more limited. I haven't experimented with a separate ZFS system for months though, so I'm just speculating a bit here. You could set up pushing snapshots directly over the network to handle backups for example. Of course, that box doesn't yet exist, but I'm crossing my fingers that this year a bunch of pieces will snap into place to give us all some very cool options.Įven without that though, it might still pair well with your dedicated zfs box, since you'd now be able to access it natively. In theory, ZFS should pair up absolutely beautifully with Thunderbolt, since it eliminates the need for any sort of RAID hardware, so all that matters is a decent enclosure where cost savings from eliminating RAID and associated hardware could balance out the $20-30 a TB chip costs, and of course it'd pair with a Mini just fine. I feel like there are a lot of pieces almost together to make a truly excellent solution. ZFS is awesome, but it also was never designed originally for "smaller" implementations - the real key is to see how well TensComplement managed to simplify the interface on what is a fantastic file system. Of particular note - things like dedupe in ZFS take a massive amount of RAM, can slow your system to a crawl if not done correctly, and are very difficult to undo without backing up and wiping the volume. I'd also suggest that anyone seriously interested in ZFS take a look at the "ZFS megathread" over in "Other Hardware" ( viewtopic.php?f=11&t=37779) It is nearly 50 pages long at this point, but has a TON of good info.
Softraid mountain lion mac#
Think it may be time to drag my older OS X server hackintosh out of the closet.Īnyone know of a solid, cheap 8-port sata card that will work in a Mac and not break the bank? LOL. Needless to say, I can't do that with a Mac mini. On my OpenIndiana box, I have 8 main data drives in hot-swap trays, along with 2 2.5 inch hot-swap trays holding the boot drive and SSD cache drive.
Softraid mountain lion software#
Ironically, my biggest "gripe" isn't with the software itself, but simply with the fact that it will be rather difficult to really replace my dedicated zfs box (OpenIndiana) with my Mac simply due to the issue of drive bays. Sounds like time to take a closer look, and with the info on the "trade-up" pricing, I may go ahead and drop the $$ on the base package in the next few days to start playing with more. I was an early beta-tester for z410, but "life" has taken up most of my time recently and I've not been actively involved. Thanks all for the info on CLI access and pricing.įull-disclosure. Hopefully that changes between now and release. Snapshots are far better then Time Machine too, although see above, I'm disturbed that they're looking at making that a feature point rather then standard.
Softraid mountain lion mac os#
Everything is supported and then some, and they've been doing a fantastic job of integrating it with Mac OS X, which can be quite tricky since the OS wasn't designed with things like nested filesystems in mind.
Softraid mountain lion full#
Other then that though yes, it's a full HFS+ replacement. Obviously though they have every reason to make it a huge priority given that most of us aren't using Mac Pros/running external enclosures all the time. Medium term it's absolutely a goal, but for a variety of reasons ZFS has been hard to boot with everywhere (only came to FreeBSD in some form a few years ago for example), and I don't know what the state of it is. I don't know whether booting will make 1.0 or not. supports all the mac metadata stuff as well - could boot off of it, etc.) - or is just something you could use for non-boot drives? Is this being positions as a full HFS+ replacement (i.e.
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