[rescue] FW: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100

[velociraptor]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj at mjturner.net> wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:27:02PM -0700, Nadine Miller wrote:
>> I'm thinking my Quicksilver + an IDE card would make a good backup system
>> with the TimeMachine system preferences hack for unsupported network
>> volumes if you could get software RAID 5 or a ZFS pool on there.  Anyone
>> heard anything about the "when" of full ZFS support on OS X?
>
> Well, if you're prepared to use beta software, you can download a version
> of ZFS with write support from the Apple Developer Connection. I haven't
> tried it myself and I have heard that it's lacking some features, but it
> may be worth investigating anyway.

Thanks for the heads up, I may try that when I get back to Vegas.
It'd definitely require software RAID, to do it on the cheap, as IDE
RAID cards for Macs are still getting ridiculous prices on eBay.

=Nadine=