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: SUN deserves a big thumbs-up for this one
by PowerMacX on Fri 11th Jan 2008 22:47
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Member since:2005-11-06
A simple search on Noel Dellofano finds his blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/dellofano/
Notice the address. When he says "we" he simply means "we the developers of ZFS", not company X or Y.
RE[2]: SUN deserves a big thumbs-up for this one
by andrewg on Fri 11th Jan 2008 22:53
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RE: SUN deserves a big thumbs-up for this one
by fye. on Fri 11th Jan 2008 23:05
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Member since:2005-08-23
If you read the page where the quote in the article is actually taken from, you'll notice this note:
**Note the above description is taken directly from the ZFS Open Solaris site What is ZFS page
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/zfs/wiki/whatis
Edited 2008-01-11 23:06 UTC
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Credit where credit is due.
Who is this we that the article refers to? Yes, Apple developers have probably adapted ZFS to meet their requirements, but the real heroes here are SUN for designing and creating ZFS and setting it free.