Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Jan 2008 21:39 UTC, submitted by nicoladagostino
Noel Dellofano, who is part of the ZFS dev team at Apple, has a post on Mac OS Forge announcing a late Christmas gift: she is making available binaries and source code (plus instructions) of the ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X. "ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use."
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Credit where credit is due.
Who is this we that the article refers to? Yes, Apple developers have probably adapted ZFS to meet their requirements, but the real heroes here are SUN for designing and creating ZFS and setting it free.