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ZFS Set To Eventually Play Larger Role in OSX

Posted by Zonk on from the all-growed-up dept.

BlueMerle writes with the news that Sun's ZFS filesystem is going to see 'rudimentary support' under OSX Leopard. That's a stepping stone to bigger and better things, as the filesystem will eventually play a much larger role in Apple OS versions. AppleInsider reports: "The developer release, those people familiar with the matter say, is a telltale sign that Apple plans further adoption of ZFS under Mac OS X as the operating system matures. It's further believed that ZFS is a candidate to eventually succeed HFS+ as the default operating system for Mac OS X -- an unfulfilled claim already made in regard to Leopard by Sun's chief executive Jonathan Schwartz back in June. Unlike Apple's progression from HFS to HFS+, ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology, but rather a fundamentally new approach to data management. It aims to provide simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability."

16 of 196 comments (clear)

  1. Clearly ZFS is superior... by psiogen · · Score: 1, Funny

    It has a "Z" in it!

    1. Re:Clearly ZFS is superior... by Trespass · · Score: 2, Funny

      It gives new meaning to the term 'Killer App'.

    2. Re:Clearly ZFS is superior... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Uh... that is 'Killer.app' to you sir!

    3. Re:Clearly ZFS is superior... by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: 1, Funny

      I dunno... I'm still waiting for iFS.

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  2. Does anyone proofread these articles? by tomRakewell · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's further believed that ZFS is a candidate to eventually succeed HFS+ as the default operating system for Mac OS X


    Macs are really going to stink if Apple changes their default operating system to ZFS. ZFS is a file system.
    1. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by rueger · · Score: 1, Funny

      Macs are really going to stink if Apple changes their default operating system to ZFS. ZFS is a file system.

      Yes, but the fanboys will still rave about how superior the whole thing is the Windows....

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    2. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by McFadden · · Score: 3, Funny

      Does anyone proofread these articles?
      They haven't done for 10 years. You're expecting them to start now?
    3. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      And, sadly, they will of course be correct.

    4. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by hackstraw · · Score: 3, Funny

      Macs are really going to stink if Apple changes their default operating system to ZFS. ZFS is a file system.

      Right, and emacs is a text editor.

    5. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 3, Funny

      Silly man. Everyone knows that Emacs is an operating system. It even runs VI.

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    6. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by TheBrutalTruth · · Score: 2, Funny

      A good question for the Ask Rob Malda interview!

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    7. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by GPL+Apostate · · Score: 2, Funny

      It probably won't happen anyway. ZFS wasn't invented at Apple, and thus will never become an important part of 'The Mac.' Unless, of course, Apple buys Sun Microsystem. Then it's a certainty. (and of course, if that happens, Darwin will be ditched for OpenSolaris (which will be closed.)

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  3. Damnit! by pi_rules · · Score: 2, Funny

    Alright, who broke the comments? Seriously, I'm stuck in this "new" version and it doesn't make fuck-all of any sense to me.

    1. Re:Damnit! by colourmyeyes · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wait, a helpful response and not mere invective? This is Slashdot; are you sure you're in the right place?

      Thanks.

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  4. Re:So.... BSD or Solaris??? by Trigun · · Score: 3, Funny

    killall

    How many people have learned that one the hard way?

  5. Re:Not so. ZFS could handle resources by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know.. Wikipedia is very handy to look these things up.

    Dude, we're still trying to get people to read the linked article. Let's not get too crazy.

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