Linked by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 15:14 UTC
RoughlyDrafted magazine has been investigating the details of Apple OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" operating system revision. Last week, they shared an article outlining "what's new in Snow Leopard. They are also outlining myths of Snow Leopard. Although very few details are available, it certainly has not resulted in a shortage of discussion of the next operating system from Cupertino. 
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RE: ZFS sooner rather than later
by kaiwai on Wed 18th Jun 2008 16:56
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I was really, really hoping for ZFS as the default file system sooner rather than later. HFS+ is a big joke (Case Insensitive, Unicode Normalization...etc)
Not enough to stop me from making my next purchase from apple, but still an annoyance
Not enough to stop me from making my next purchase from apple, but still an annoyance
Maybe they didn't go for ZFS due to the overhead that is required for it; ZFS isn't a 'slim file system', it loves to let it all hang out, so a machine with atleast 1gig memory might have persuaded many off within Apple making it the boot file system.
Then again, this is an early preview, what appears there, and what might appear in the final version can be worlds apart. If there are enough demands placed on them by customers, I'm sure they'll make ZFS atleast an option.
Edit: Btw, I run Solaris on two machines, and use ZFS on all my drives; its a great file system, but with ever good, there is a down side.
Edited 2008-06-18 16:57 UTC
RE: ZFS sooner rather than later
by sanctus on Wed 18th Jun 2008 17:30
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RE: ZFS sooner rather than later
by ActiveMan on Wed 18th Jun 2008 19:44
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Case insensitive is opposed to performance resolving file names. This operation could be executed thousands of times per seconds. Currently OS X can be installed with both modes: case sensitive/insensitive and as far as I know there is no intention to drop any of them.
RE: ZFS sooner rather than later
by macUser on Wed 18th Jun 2008 19:57
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Member since:2006-12-15
I was really, really hoping for ZFS as the default file system sooner rather than later. HFS+ is a big joke (Case Insensitive, Unicode Normalization...etc)
Not enough to stop me from making my next purchase from apple, but still an annoyance
Not enough to stop me from making my next purchase from apple, but still an annoyance
What makes you think that Case Insensitivity is going to go away...
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/244/;jsess...
Personally, I hope that ZFS makes it to client machines and not just server...
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I was really, really hoping for ZFS as the default file system sooner rather than later. HFS+ is a big joke (Case Insensitive, Unicode Normalization...etc)
Not enough to stop me from making my next purchase from apple, but still an annoyance