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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:08:23 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Narayan Venkat <narayan.venkat@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Snow leopard to have ZFS before desktop version
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Off next week.  But I'll be getting my email from time to time.

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:50:17 -0800 Narayan Venkat
<narayan.venkat@onstor.com> wrote:

> Are you going to be around next week?
> 
> Narayan Venkat
> Tel: (408) 963-2404
> Cell: (408) 221-4297
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> Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
>  
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andy Sharp
> Cc: dl-Leopard
> Sent: Thu Feb 19 16:25:29 2009
> Subject: Re: Snow leopard to have ZFS before desktop version
> 
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:24:41 -0800 Narayan Venkat
> <narayan.venkat@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > FYI.
> > http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/02/09/mac_os_x_snow_leopard_server_to_pioneer_zfs_ahead_of_desktop.html
> 
> Subject should have said "Snow Leopard Server" ... had me confused for
> a bit.  I read the first paragraph of this article where it says only
> some non-functional, read-only silly-version of ZFS is available on
> shipping Leopard, and I thought, man, that's weird, I tried out ZFS on
> my lappy and it worked just fine.  But then later on they do mention
> that you can get the fully functional ZFS through the developer
> channel, which is where I got it.  But I never figured out how to make
> ZFS the root filesystem.  Nor did I try very hard.  It might not be
> possible.  But as to their contention that it "isn't available through
> the fancy user interface", first I would like to say, what fancy user
> interface?  Next I would like to say: uh, baloney.  Once you mount a
> ZFS filesystem, it's as available as any other.  Probably the writer
> is not aware of the bug in the Finder app that fails to show mounted
> filesystems besides the root filesystem.  But ZFS is quite the
> resource hog on a little air-brained laptop.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> a
