Star ZFS for Mac OS X: Binaries, Source Available
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Jan 2008 21:39 UTC, submitted by nicoladagostino
Mac OS X 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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andrewg
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2005-07-06

Some points:-

- His last post was in 2005 before anyone else had picked up ZFS.

- His blog is on the sun.com domain

- Obviously he is referring to Sun developers.

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tyrione Member since:
2005-11-21

It's simple. He's one of the creators on the ZFS project who then took a job at Apple. The WE work both at SUN and Apple.

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andrewg Member since:
2005-07-06

I agree its simple ZFS was created by Sun employees. Sun paid his salary, held the rights to the software and released it to the world for all to benefit. The fact that he moved to another company has nothing to do with the fact that Sun blew "away 20 years of obsolete assumptions" and not Apple and it certainly should not be represented as "We" on an Apple/Mac website as this clearly gives the wrong impression.

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