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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."

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  1. 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 McFadden · · Score: 3, Funny

      Does anyone proofread these articles?
      They haven't done for 10 years. You're expecting them to start now?
    2. 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.

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

    killall

    How many people have learned that one the hard way?

  3. 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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