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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. Re:Comparison of Filesystems. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Troll
    Whoops, sorry to reply to myself, but I said:
    would be the introduction of journalling beyond metadata (and even this is unlikely to be useful to most people
    And I should have mentioned fragmentation.

    HFS+ is subject to fragmentation (but Apple, like MS, provides no tools to help you deal with it)
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  2. Re:Reiser4 would be a better choice by outZider · · Score: 0, Troll

    And then when something happens, we can't recover it! Yay!

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