Star Apple Shuts Down Mac OS X ZFS Project
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 21:13 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Mac OS X John Siracusa, the Mac OS X guru who writes those insanely detailed and well-written Mac OS X reviews for Ars Technica, once told a story about the evolution of the HFS+ file system in Mac OS X - he said it was a struggle between the Mac guys who wanted the features found in BeOS' BFS, and the NEXT guys who didn't really like these features. In the end, the Mac guys won, and over the course of six years, Mac OS X reached feature parity - and a little more - with the BeOS (at the FS level).
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What's not to like?
by Vanders on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 21:26 UTC
Vanders
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2005-07-06

it was a struggle between the Mac guys who wanted the features found in BeOS' BFS, and the NEXT guys who didn't really like these features


What features in BFS could you not like?

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RE: What's not to like?
by Thom_Holwerda on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 21:32 in reply to "What's not to like?"
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

They had a UNIX philosophy. You can't hold that against them.

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RE[2]: What's not to like?
by DittoBox on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 22:50 in reply to "RE: What's not to like?"
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2005-07-08

By "they" you mean the NEXT devs?

Creeptastic avatar, by the way. I like it.

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