Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 23:01 UTC
Developers have received from Apple a 'ZFS on Mac OS X Preview 1.1' package, which offers preliminary support for the ZFS file system, originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris OS. Currently, the Mac OS is based on the HFS+ file system, but leaked screenshots of earlier versions of Leopard showed options for formatting hard drives for ZFS. Reportedly, this preview allows full read and write capabilities with the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple's upcoming version of its OS X operating system.
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2007-09-18
HFS+ is not the most reliable file system. If you don't have enough free space, then you might have some problems.
http://www.macfixitforums.com/printthread.php?Board=xutilities&main...
My personal experience with OS X confirms what the tech says. I've had file corruption, but nothing that Diskwarrior couldn't fix. fsck is not enough.
ZFS is going to be great and welcome addition to OS X. I just hope read/write is not pushed aside until 10.6.