Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Dec 2006 16:58 UTC, submitted by Hakime
A French user has discovered that ZFS is now 'officially' supported in Leopard [French], while testing the latest build of Apple's upcoming operating system. Indeed it is now possible to create disk images or partitions formated in ZFS (screen capture included). However, it seems that it is not possible yet to install the OS on a ZFS partition.
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2005-07-06
I would say that ZFS is second to Reiser4. Reiser4 is a far more innovative filesystem that really addresses the point that byte-streams are just byte-streams, and that any distinction between metadata and data is just arbitrary. Furthermore, once the distinction between data and metadata is eliminated, and small files are stored efficiently, it becomes a completely usable design for apps to stop storing small record in custom databases, and use the filesystem for such tasks.
That said, its nice that OS X is getting a decent filesystem. The longer I use OS X, the more it becomes painfully apparent how badly the kernel sucks, and any step forward is a much needed one.