
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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2005-07-05
I think this is great news as well, however, I wonder how well my apps will work with it. I know Adobe, due to their superior programming skills, does not work if you use a filesystem other than the default.
Why a graphics program concerns itself with the filesystem is entirely beyond me.