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Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX

Posted by Zonk on from the so-happy-together dept.

Fjan11 writes "Sun's Jonathan Schwartz has announced that Apple will be making ZFS 'the file system' in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. It's possible that Leopard's Time Machine feature will require ZFS to run, because ZFS has back-up and snapshots build right in to the filesystem as well as a host of other features. 'Rumors of Apple's interest in ZFS began in April 2006, when an OpenSolaris mailing list revealed that Apple had contacted Sun regarding porting ZFS to OS 10. The file system later began making appearances in Leopard builds. ZFS has a long list of improvements over Apple's current file system, Journaled HFS+.'"

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  1. The were going to use Reiser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But they killed that project.

    1. Re:The were going to use Reiser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You know, having a project like that canceled is very stressful for developers. It must have been murder on their families, too.

      Oh God. I can't sign my name to that.

    2. Re:The were going to use Reiser by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 5, Funny

      Am I missing any other notorious Slashdot cliche?

      I don't use Slashdot cliches, you insensitive clod!

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  2. It WAS... by WiseWeasel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not anymore, it ain't... Now, Apple will go with NTFS just to spite them...

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  3. Re:oblig... by evil_Tak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently you've never used ReiserFS.

  4. Re:oblig... by mapinguari · · Score: 4, Funny

    You misunderstood him. He said that it would bring about "War and Peace", not world peace.
    Every ZFS volume has a copy of the Tolstoy classic embedded for internal benchmark purposes.

  5. Re:oblig... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He wrote 'data loss', not 'wife loss'.

  6. Re:He's already backpeddled by gclef · · Score: 5, Funny

    Translation:

    "I didn't know that Steve Jobs was going to call me and scream at me like a diseased monkey when I said that. I'm sorry Steve. Please don't kill me."

  7. Re:oblig... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I married Brent Spiner, you insensitive clod.

  8. Re:oblig... by adisakp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope. ZFS WAS going to be the file system until Sun's CEO leaked it before Jobs could announce it. No one knows what it will actually be NOW. Jobs would rather use FAT32 than let someone leak info about one of his announcements.

  9. Re:oblig... by Tribbin · · Score: 3, Funny

    That was user error.

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