Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Jan 2008 21:39 UTC, submitted by nicoladagostino
Noel Dellofano, who is part of the ZFS dev team at Apple, has a post on Mac OS Forge announcing a late Christmas gift: she is making available binaries and source code (plus instructions) of the ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X. "ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use."
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RE: "We've blown away ..."?
by aliquis on Sat 12th Jan 2008 16:53
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RE: "We've blown away ..."?
by nxsty on Sat 12th Jan 2008 18:14
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I applaud Apple for getting ZFS into MacOS. But I do find the following quote very misleading, "We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use."
I think "we've" should be replaced with "Sun Microsystems". Sun graciously gave away software which can save companies millions of dollars on storage solutions and which is a key differentiator. So I think the least they could do is give Sun some credit in the opening paragraph not in a link on details about ZFS etc.
Edited 2008-01-11 22:34 UTC