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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Member since:2005-07-14
I haven't RTFM'd on ZFS yet, but I can't imagine anyone designing a filesystem without support for arbitrary metadata these days. Even the original NTFS supported it (although almost nothing could take advantage of it).
It's entirely possible that the UNIX arrogance (ugo rwx bits, owner user/group, etc. is enough metadata for everybody!) might have hobbled it, but I doubt it, ZFS seems to support all kinds of other advanced filesystem features.
- chrish
Member since:2005-04-01
Trust me when I say that the default OS is on Leopard is... uh... Leopard!
I think you mean the default file system, and I'd bet that it's pretty late in the game to change the DEFAULT. I'm not even certain that you can boot off of ZFS yet.
I suspect it won't be until the next release of OS X that ZFS is even entertained for a default.
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2006-04-20
ZFS is very cool.
I hope it'll be the default OS in Leopard, but don't know if it can handle HFS+ metadata and resource forks. Anyone have an idea?