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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:The real questions are... by hjf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    then you need to mkfs, and if you run out of space you're screwed because you can't easily grow. also, you can't create a newer fs, nor you can have snapshots, send/receive snapshots, volumes, have on-the-fly checksumming and disks that don't drop off the array at the first read error, one-line CIFS/NFS/iSCSI sharing. Get over it... zfs is better than md+lvm+ext3+whatever.

    I'm not trolling, it's just that ZFS has been developed without the traditional and orthodox methods of disk-partition-filesystem and put everything on a single "layer", and instead of losing flexibility, we gain more, just because zfs developers were thinking outside the box (the now "traditional" way of doing things is segregation: the OSI layers, etc, claim to be more flexible, efficient and manageable than throwing everything together). I know, I know, veritas had this for years, so we could say that it was stole^H^H^H^H^Hcopied from them -- just as gates copied jobs, and jobs copied xerox.

    Imagine the possibilities of breaking traditionalisms (like linux does "socially" but not "technologically").