Apple Looking at ZFS For Mac OS X

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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unfounded opinions

[dottedlinedesign]

But Dvorak said Apple was switching to Windows! How could this possibly be true?

Re:Tiger Filesystems (10.4.6)

[aibrahim]

Ugh... I tried reposting listing anonymously for a higher rating, but I forgot that posting as AC removes karma and logged in bonus... so here I go being TREBLY redundant.

For the record, if I had mod points I would have modded GP up as "Informative"

Last login: Thu Apr 20 18:20:18 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
[athena:~] aibrahim% ls -l /System/Library/Filesystems/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Apr 4 11:14 AppleShare
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Apr 2 2005 URLMount
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49 Nov 4 02:45 afpfs.fs -> /System/Library/Filesystems/AppleShare/afpfs.kext
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Feb 24 22:08 cd9660.fs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 26 2005 cddafs.fs
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Nov 4 02:45 ftp.fs
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Nov 4 02:45 hfs.fs
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Mar 26 2005 msdos.fs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 20 2005 nfs.fs
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Sep 4 2005 ntfs.fs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 26 2005 smbfs.fs
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Apr 29 21:33 udf.fs
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Mar 20 2005 ufs.fs
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Mar 26 2005 webdav.fs

Re:Comparison of Filesystems.

[mattwarden]

I mean who's really going to need a 16,000,000 Gigabyte file

Actually, I keep an archive of all Slashdot dupes...

Re:Think you'll get it?

[Just Some Guy]

Sorry BSD folks, maybe if you whined lounder, we might finally recognize your collective brilliance.

I guess it worked.