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Apple Looking at ZFS For Mac OS X

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-the-shadow-knows dept.

Udo Schmitz writes "Apples Filesystem Development Manager, Chris Emura, is looking into porting Sun Microsystems' file system ZFS to OS X. At least this is what Sun's Eric Kustarz states on the ZFS mailing list. Is this a glimpse of hope for all those of us who think HFS+ isn't up to par for a 21st century OS? Next thing you know and they'll rewrite the Finder ..."

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  1. when will it be available for RedHat? by hachete · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The main goodness of this OS is the ability to chuck hard-disks at it without all that partitioning nonsense. I maintain a repository for a build system and, in the absence of GoogleOS, this would be perfect for storing old releases and the ever-increasing component area.

    MacOS X servers are just way too expensive.

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