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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. Buzz compliant by suv4x4 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    end-to-end data integrity

    You can't talk about end-to-end data integrity when this is just a filesystem. It's only one tiny place where the data you store in said file system can wreck its integrity. Are there memory bus or in-memory check for integrity of data read from ZFS? What about applications?

    Also stop talking to ZFS. Very secret internal sources told me ZFS was supposed to be a bigger event in Leopard but Steve killed it because Sun scooped him. It has happened before folks!

    Don't scoop the Steve. You scoop the Steve and business is over.

  2. Non-Standard my ass! by kaiwai · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I'm hoping not, since many things behave very oddly on Solaris. Non standard tools and such, but it would be one way to keep it from running on cracked PC's.

    What are you smokeing - what ever it is, pass it this way. Non-standard or 'does not conform to the bastardised standards which GNU have embraced and extended'. Case in point, look at the number of nimrods who assume gnu grep and use gnu specific switches for their make scripts.

    It isn't Solaris that it is non-standard, it is those who insist on using GNU tools and their extensions to the standard which are the non-standard.

  3. Re:They said the same thing about UFS. by flaming-opus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    True, but the capabilities of UFS don't really exceed HFS+. ZFS, on the other hand, is a thoroughly modern filesystem. UFS is just as rusty as HFS+.

  4. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by phliar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It probably won't happen anyway. ZFS wasn't invented at Apple, and thus will never become an important part of 'The Mac.'
    And Unix wasn't invented there either, but I'd call OS X "an important part of 'The Mac'".
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    Unlimited growth == Cancer.
  5. Re:Does anyone proofread these articles? by Durandal64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apache wasnt invented at Apple. Neither was Samba. Neither was SSH. Neither was gcc. All of these things are very important in Mac OS X.