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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. Comparison of Filesystems. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have a look at wikipedia's Comparison of file systems page to see the difference between ZFS & HFS+.

    The main advantage for HFS+ users (I mean who's really going to need a 16,000,000 Gigabyte file) would be the introduction of journalling beyond metadata (and even this is unlikely to be useful to most people).

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    1. Re:Comparison of Filesystems. by captnitro · · Score: 5, Informative

      Since OS X.3, I believe the kernel has defragmented files under 20 MB on the fly.

  2. Re:This is meaningless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ZFS actually is a ver good file system.

    Here is the ars technica low-down on what ZFS does differently and why that's such a good thing.

    arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5595.html