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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. 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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  2. Re:Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well then, what does Paris Hilton think of this?

  3. 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.

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

    Paris Hilton? Think?