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ZFS Set To Eventually Play Larger Role in OSX

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. Re:I hate the new comment system by ArcticFlood · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Turn your highlight threshold down to whatever you normally browse at. That is a workaround for the time being.

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    This is here so you don't ignore the last two lines of my posts.
  2. MOD SLASHDOT -1 ANNOYING by argent · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't even see my preferences link in at all with this system, the floaters do not work in Safari 3. I had to go straight to my user page by URL.

    In addition, what's the point of having a checkbox "to turn off the excesses of the user interface" if it doesn't actually DO that?

  3. Re:Buzz compliant by kaiwai · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "If you care about my opinion, you have no girlfriend." - Miguel de Icaza, Novell VP & founder of GNOME and Mono

    Well of course I have no girlfriend - I have a boyfriend!