The importance of ZFS for desktops
updated 02:45 pm EDT, Thu May 4, 2006
ZFS for desktops
Following news that Apple is considering porting Sun's ZFS file system to Mac OS X, one system administrator has posted a list of reasons to use ZFS on home systems alongside server installations. "I'm getting annoyed at people that keep saying ZFS is okay for servers but I don't need it for home," wrote James Dickens of UNIX Admin Corner. ZFS is Sun Microsystem's modern performance file system, developed for the Solaris 10 operating system to offer extremely fast performance, support for virtually unlimited capacity, advanced data integrity routines, and more. The blog entry compares setting up a RAID mirroring backup system in Linux to a similar mirroring system using ZFS, depicting the ease of the latter compared to the former. "In ZFS we execute two or three commands and we are done," Dickens noted.
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Pointless
If you actually look at the article, the idiot administrator guy talks about such things as making multiple file systems, how hard it is to set up a raid in linux, etc. But how many users set up 16 different file systems on a disk? Or even use RAID. And most of that complexity is also just hidden by a good UI (see making a RAID in OS X).