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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2006-12-16
If you decide to go ahead, drop me an e-mail. I've seriously thought about writing something like that myself.
Being a Linux guy myself, last September I bought a MacBookPro. I was on a hiatus using OSX for nearly two months non-stop. I thoroughly understand what you say about its kernel. The interface is very flashy and all, but seriously, its kernel is far worse than an unoptimized... I don't know what to compare it to.
Once I an on Linux (2.6 + CK) full time again, I feel I have unleashed the real power this machine has.
Tell me about leaving a lengthy CPU bound process like encoding an HDTV video with x264. You get a barely usable system on OSX, even nicing it +19. On Linux, I can keep doing that not only way faster than it was on OSX, but interactivity doesn't suffer at all.
I'd need to compile myself mplayer on OSX, tweaking it the way I do on Gentoo, to do a fair comparison. But still, the difference is awesome.
My 2¢.