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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RE[2]: I have yet to see why I should care about ZFS
by FunkyELF on Mon 8th Oct 2007 14:37
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RE[3]: I have yet to see why I should care about ZFS
by Weeman on Mon 8th Oct 2007 17:38
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RE[3]: I have yet to see why I should care about ZFS
by segedunum on Mon 8th Oct 2007 18:09
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ZFS might be useful on a huge SUN server system, but I do fail to see what it could do for my laptop or desktop.
Understand you point of view. Changing filesystems is never trivial. However, Apple really do need to update HFS or get a modern filesystem that is going to grow with future development.
ZFS would make things such as backups a whole lot easier and more reliable with snapshot, you've got built-in free compression and encryption and it would help Apple's new backup thingy no end.