[aklug] ZFS

We're in the process of getting beefier OS X servers due to my bosses
love affair with Apple. He's not the head of I.T. mind you.. just the
head of the company.. which I guess has some sway.

I've been searching for a way to use 12 cores on OS X without
'breaking dist' so to speak. I've found a LOT of utilities to help me
stay sane.. I've experienced pain and pleasure in it's new server
control panel and services.. and now I've moved on to the fact that I
really honestly hate HFS+.. So I went searching for a better FS that
could be used with OSX and have found MacZFS and it is.. bliss.

http://i.imgur.com/oINIz.png

I'd like to thank Royce for bringing ZFS back up to the surface for
me. I'm not a huge BSD user and I had a difficult time my need for
instant gratification mixing with the learning curve that FreeBSD.. or
even Debian/kFreeBSD.. introduced. At this point I'm just happy to
have non HFS+ for our main storage pool. HFS+ will still be utilized
for the root filesystem and some small supplimentary filesystems.

Hopefully I will be showing off ZFS Send/Recv to el boss mang later today.

- Shane
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Received on Fri Aug 10 10:00:43 2012