Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Mar 2011 00:06 UTC
"A commercial ZFS solution is (still) coming to Mac OS X, thanks to former Apple filesystem and OS engineer Don Brady (who previously worked on the abandoned internal Apple project to port ZFS). Brady and his company, Ten's Complement, just launched a limited private beta in hopes to have the software polished and ready for a summer launch this year. Ars spoke with Brady, who has a long history engineering filesystems for Mac OS and Mac OS X, to find out a little about his previous work with ZFS at Apple, and what Mac users can expect to gain from Ten's Complement's port of ZFS."
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RE[3]: Will definitely buy...
by s_groening on Sun 20th Mar 2011 14:17
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MCX is already done on Linux, by utilizing the Apple schema with OpenLDAP installations.
You can quite easily use Apple's Workgroup Manager tool to maintain a Linux-based OpenLDAP installation with the Apple schema applied, so there's even a GUI managing the clients.
NetInstall/NetBoot is basically a PXE boot method for Macs based on nfs + bsdp + dns + tftp.
This can be setup on Linux as well.
Softwareupdates might be impossible to implement directly, although it's basically an Apache 1.3 with a cgi script querying Apple's servers for software updates, caching these locally and allowing clients to browse its catalogs via http.
A clever proxy setup might be able to cache files on a separate server so that every update only needs to be downloaded once; the next client asking for this file at Apple's swupd.apple.com would get the local cached version instead.
RE[3]: Will definitely buy...
by akula83 on Sun 20th Mar 2011 22:02
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Well my only thoughts about this is,
- How would I apply MCX settings to Mac clients?
- How would I set up NetInstall for Mac clients?
- How would I save bandwidth for all Mac clients for software updates.
MCX can be applied via AD if needed. Of course this means adding to the AD schema and lots of corporate AD teams love that. You also need workgroup manager (or whatever the tool is called) to set the options, unless your happy to work without a GUI.
NetInstall is a bit difficult as it uses a cut down version of OS X to do the install. The protocol is not too complex and you can hack something together with bootp and afp but you need the proprietary bits to make it work. This is only really useful once you get to the scale that you realise that OS X server doesn't scale well in very large network environments.
Finally #3 is really really easy.... Squid works wonders as a transparent proxy. Not only do you get the advantage of caching the updates, but you don't actually have to configure the machine to use it. Leaving it with vanilla settings really works well for mobile users as they can update at home, etc.
We used to use a transparent proxy at an apple shop I worked for, even though we had an OS X server. Since we had a lot of new machines in for servicing this would allow them to update from the proxy instead of the net. Not to mention MUCH MUCH MUCH faster.
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Why would they need to? Since OS X Server is basically all of the F/OSS software with a pretty front end... "
Well my only thoughts about this is,
- How would I apply MCX settings to Mac clients?
- How would I set up NetInstall for Mac clients?
- How would I save bandwidth for all Mac clients for software updates.
It might be F/OSS setting up, ftp, email, web server, etc. But Apple did do some specific things for their software platform.
To the person, you quoted. It would be great if they allowed it and specifically virtualised OSX server. Currently you are allowed to Virtualise OSX server, but as long as the VM is running on Apple hardware. Well that server hardware is going away. After all Apple is soft..hardwa..gadgets.. company.