Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Jun 2007 19:49 UTC
An Apple official on Monday said Sun's open-source file system would not be in the next version of the Mac operating system, contradicting statements made last week by Sun's chief executive. During an interview with InformationWeek, Brian Croll, senior director of product marketing for the Mac OS, said, "ZFS is not happening," when asked whether Sun's Zettabyte File System would be in Leopard. Instead, Leopard would use Apple's current hierarchical file system, called HFS+. The Apple file system was first introduced in 1998 in Mac OS 8.0.
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Why? Are you missing something using it? It's not like it's broken...
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I think they are in the same boat as the rest of us. Journalled metadata, 4 billion files per directory, 16TiB maximum file size, and 16TiB maximum volume size is plenty for most folks today. And orginzations who need more have other options.
But in a few years... we'll all need something.
Well, except for ZFS. Sun got tired of the bit size merry-go-round, and with its 128 bit allowances, should be good for another 150 years or so, assuming a doubling of requirements every 1.5 years.
I can't blame them, really.