[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Bill Bradford wrote:

>> And people keep acting like this is a good thing.  How many other
>> abstraction barriers can we violate?
>
> Why *not* do it this way?

   1) Cutting a disk into slices is a Good Thing.  Sometimes, different
      slices need different filesystems.  Why should only the ZFS
      filesystems get the RAID benefits?
   2) It complicates system administration.  Some filesystems are defined
      as slices mounted in places according to /etc/vfstab.  Some
      filesystems are now defined in wherever ZFS retains its
      configuration.
   3) Almost universally, combining different tools into one is not the
      Unix way of doing things.  How useful would a separate X server
      that could only run xterm be?  Who cares if you mostly run xterms,
      the separation of functionalities makes the entire system more
      flexible.

> I *like* setting up an eight-disk RAID-5 array with ONE COMMAND.

That's why we have shell scripts.

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