Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Aug 2006 13:18 UTC, submitted by nicoladagostino
From the AppleInsider forum comes an interesting discovery about ZFS and Apple. A user who has the Leopard WWDC preview searched the system with Spotlight and found a mention of ZFS. He says: "There is no file system bundle for it, nor is there a mount utility or any other one (no fsck, now newfs, etc.). There is, however, a changed vnode.h."
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2005-07-07
The FreeBSD guys are well into porting ZFS. In 10 days they have been able to create and mount zfs files systems. There is still more work to be done, but this was one guy and 10 days of work! Imagine what Apple can do.
With ZFS and zvol you can create a volume and put a different FS on it, currently ufs is supported in Solaris.
Apple could use most of ZFS and overlay HFS+ on zvol and get snapshots. Apple ported DTrace for 10.5, I don't think porting ZFS is that far fetched.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=227886+0+current/freeb...
Edited 2006-08-23 15:36