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

[Mike Meredith]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:38:43 -0500 (CDT), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>    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?

You haven't read the documentation have you ? This can be done with ZFS
... either use the raw disk devices (and lose RAID) or create virtual
devices on ZFS filesystems that UFS/Oracle/Swap/Whatever can use.

>    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.

You haven't read the documentation have you ? Whilst by default zfs
filesystems are not handled through /etc/vfstab, they can be. As for
complexity, managing storage through zpool/zfs is easier than :-

* Sun DiskSuite
* Veritas
* AIX volume groups/logical volumes.