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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. HFS+ as the default operating system for Mac OS X by theNetImp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uh folks, I hate to break it to you but ZFS is a FILE SYSTEM not an OPERATING SYSTEM....

    I am sure Apple isn't going to replace the core of their OS with Solaris. ZFS may be a better choice the HFS+ I don't know a lot about ZFS, but if it is better I will have no problem migrating my stuff over to it.