May 25
RAID is often described in numbers such as RAID0, RAID1, RAID4, RAID5 and so on. But numbers don’t mean much. We talk about different RAID configurations using more real world words: Scary, Redundant Redundant, Not So Scary RAID. While all of those RAID variants are pretty cool the forthcoming ZFS is a modern take on making RAID even better.
Note: It is uncertain when ZFS will ship for the Mac as an option supported by Apple.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:15 am
How do you feel now that it does not look like is going to happen in leopard
July 30th, 2007 at 8:34 am
this podcast was very interesting. ZFS looks realy promising, and MacFuse/ MacFusion combo is great! Keep it uo!
August 24th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Just finished listening to this podcast. One thing I heard troubled me. I run raid-5 at home (using openfiler) and you mentioned that running raid-5 with three drives is more scary than scary raid (Raid-0). As far as I understand raid-5, three drives should be the safest and the more drives you have the less safe you are. Anyone know if this is true?
Thanks
January 4th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Just wanted to let you guys know I listened to this for the second time yesterday, and feel better rehashing ZFS. I have built several Freenas boxes out of old hardware and they seem to be rock solid for simple raid mirroring. I am in the process of building a new RAID5 setup, and stopped to consider doing a RAIDZ under a BSD distro. Listening for the second time makes me really think its the way to go. Thanks for the great show, and bring on your “Build a NAS” show.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I have been keeping up with the development at http://zfs.macosforge.org/ and have really seen some progress. There are some critical issues keeping it from use but they seem quickly fixable. I see myself using ZFS for my backup drives fairly soon.