Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS 'the file system' in OSX 10.5 Leopard. "In fact, this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS X."
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Member since:2005-11-05
Ummmmmm MAC is not part of the filesystem, it is part of the kernel. Linux uses SELinux for it's implementation of MAC (Mandatory Access Control) and stores the information in EA (Extended Attributes). However, not all filesystems support EA.
The creator of that table in wikipedia was likely confused. SELinux users can use ext3 as their filesystem because it supports EA.
Solaris uses Trusted Extensions as their form of MAC and I am not qualified to say how it works. If Solaris's Trusted Extensions need's extended attributes on the filesystem (which they probably do) then TE should work on ZFS.
Member since:2006-08-18
Well Linux and other *nixes do support ACLs they are just less talked about than standard Unix permissions on *nix platforms.
I plan to start using them on my Linux system as they offer more flexible file and directory access control options over simple Unix permissions.
Edited 2007-06-07 04:01
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2005-07-06
ZFS has ACL support.
What it doesn't have is Mandatory Access Control, but then neither does NTFS or HFS+.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems">source...
Edited 2007-06-06 21:33