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ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available

Posted by kdawson on from the go-ahead-make-a-really-big-file-system dept.

nezmar writes "Noel Dellofano, who is part of the ZFS development team at Apple, has a post on Mac OS Forge announcing a late Christmas gift: he is making available binaries and source code, plus instructions, of the ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X."

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  1. Re:Great new filesystems by stinerman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only minor issue I see is that a zfs send is single threaded, so you cant parralellize it over multiple processes easily.

    Well, a multithreaded filesystem is only a performance hack anyway. :-)
  2. That's nice. by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, if we can only get it to talk to important things like NTFS, and Ext3, and Reiser...

    1. Re:That's nice. by Rebelgecko · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you want to talk to Reiser, visiting hours are 9AM-5PM on weekends.

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      CATS/Diebold '08- All your vote are belong to us!
  3. Re:Total garbage - has no error result codes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    it isn't a filesystem for the masses.

    Huh? Music, movies, Office, and porn. And lots of web browsing (goes with the porn).

    Do I want ZFS or not?
  4. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well then, what does Paris Hilton think of this?

  5. Re:Notes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Based on your limited experience with this filesystem, would you say that it would make sense to port the source code to Solaris? I'm sure there's a lot of Sun users who could use a shot in the arm like this right about now.

  6. Re:Hmm by johnslater · · Score: 5, Funny

    Paris Hilton? Think?

  7. Doesn't that go without saying? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing short of a complete redesign could have rescued WinFS. The design as it was was flawed from nearly the beginning.

    It's a windows family tradition.

  8. Re:"he is making" by celle · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I know it may be unheard of to those reading /., but Noel is a girl."

    Oh my Lord!

    narrator: "and the Ronald Reagan picture drops from the wall in Cmdr Taco's office."

    So what, move on guys..??