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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. oblig... by doyoulikeworms · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One file system to rule them all.

    1. Re:oblig... by MrHanky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      My /home partition on my main computer is ReiserFS, and has been since at least 2003. Never had problems with it. I've stored video files on that one as well. In fact, the only FS I've lost files with recently is HFS+ on my old Powerbook. I'm just saying that not having problems is what's expected. FAT32 is the poorest FS still in use, and normally you won't lose data even with that.

    2. Re:oblig... by someone300 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      My ReiserFS partitions are fine, as are my ext2/3 partitions and my ZFS partitions. My HFS+ partitions, on the other hand, are the least reliable for some odd reason, regardless of what hard drive, computer or operating system (OS X, Linux) I've tried. Even safely shutting down and dismounting. On OS X at least, it seems to corrupt under normal use for me, on my iPod and my internal drives. Very strange.

      Hell, the only time I really lose data with FAT32 in my memory was when I pull out an in-use hard drive or crash the system.

    3. Re:oblig... by piojo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You are not alone--with slackware 10.0 and the older version of reiserfs that came with it, I repeatedly suffered filesystem corruption. I couldn't comprehend how they shipped such a buggy FS, but true linux geeks might not discover any problem--it only happened when I unzipped windows archives.

      --
      A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
    4. Re:oblig... by EugeneK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Just another person piling on to say that I've use Reiser FS for at least the past 2 years, as far as I can remember, and have had no problems with it.

  2. News Flash Apple Buys Sun.... by Glasswire · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ..."Steve says 'It seems like a good idea' "