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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. test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    dutz, this troll for you mate!!!! dota?

  2. Total garbage - has no error result codes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Total garbage - has no error result codes! Always assumes all writes have no failures, so unplugging a firewire drive or a USB drive or eSata drive guaranteed to either kernel panic or otherwise crash the OS.

    The Finder itself is lied to.

    This is such an amateurish implementation, I am shocked that the source was even offered.

    Shame on Apple for funding this quality of work.

    I will admit, a few years ago, DURING BOOT, linux had a similar design bug and all IDE writes during boot had no error codes returned. But this is different. This is 2008.

  3. he's a she by nobody/incognito · · Score: 0, Troll

    a damn fine she at that

    --
    parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
  4. Re:Not ready for prime time... by EXMSFT · · Score: 0, Troll

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

  5. Re:Port it to Linux by BrainInAJar · · Score: 0, Troll

    No.

    Use OpenSolaris instead.

    Linux's GPL forbids importing code from the CDDL. Solaris is also a much better operating system.

  6. Linus' approach to the GPL is pretty liberal... by argent · · Score: 0, Troll

    The way the previous post was formed, it seemed to imply that it is all Linux's fault for not being compatible with Solaris.

    It would be nice if Linus had picked a license that allowed more flexibility. On the other hand I really admire how far he's gone to keep the Linux kernel open to GPL-incompatible code (such as the nVidia drivers) despite pressure from people to take a hard line on the GPL.

    I'm actually not sure that it would really be impossible to come up with a way to incorporate ZFS in the Linux kernel. It would require a lot of care, and cooperation from the Linux side, but stranger things have happened.