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- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15From Wikipedia: ZFS is a 128-bit file system, which means it can provide 16 billion billion times the capacity of current 64-bit systems. The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they will never be encountered in any practical operation. When contemplating the capacity of this system, Bonwick stated "Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans." - YES!
- nojja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Thanks for your uninformed opinions! MacOS uses HFS(+) and has never ever used Ext3.
- Drealoth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13For any other 12 year olds out there giggling at the text.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cum - t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9apple used HFS+ last time i checked.
- FelixWankel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12This is hot news. I'm not an Apple fan, I don't want to be, Digg me down, whatever.
ZFS is the Dippin' Dots of filesystems. Except that it will be around longer. I almost posted on my blog earlier how much I adored this filesystem and how much I wished every OS would support it. However, I figured there would be at least one company (MSFT, or AAPL) that wouldn't bite. Eh, looks like it's MSFT, if AAPL is signing on.
ZFS is the best we've got for manageability, usability, performance, and stability; I wish everyone would sign on.
And I'm not even a Solaris zealot, at all. - atomicpoet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Not really a rumour. Check the mailing lists. Numerous Apple engineers have lately been expressing interest in inclusing ZFS in Darwin. I would call it "not quite announced".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If Apple moved to ZFS it would be yet another blow to Microsoft Windows Vista
Vista needs to get off its bloated ars, and do something about it. If they want to stay at the top. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8This is not "news". It's an insubstantiated rumor, just like all the other Apple *****.
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i was always a fan of reiserFS in my linux days. i don't really enjoy the HFS+ but i need it for compatability with carbon.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"And by fast I also mean stable"
OK, I'm following you. - SpringBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Of course! It's free software licensed under the CDDL, which is similar to the MPL.
- AtomB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw that and couldn't quite figure out why that was in there, but it did make me laugh
- ratsg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can also use/create/access UFS file system(s) under current versions of Mac OS X
- IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Would MS be able to use ZFS if they wanted?
- Trams, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'm one of those twelve year olds.
- vslavik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0It _is_ a rumor -- the whole (Ars.Technica) article is based on the fact that Apple engineers sent one mail saying they are "interested" in porting ZFS. In other words, they didn't even start at that time and were just evulating the feasibility of doing it.
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+9it works well for storing massive amounts of porn.
- shpider, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4and sperm banks rejoice !
- Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Digg really needs to fix this editing timer. It only gave me 10 seconds to change what I had to say.
To finish what I was going to say.... if Apple does decide to use ZFS then more power to them. I would love to have OS X run on top of ZFS on my brand new mac book pro. Hopefully we can see a new filesystem in 10.5. - Hydraulix, on 10/12/2007, -22/+0It's about time Apple breaks away from ext3. Don't get me wrong I love the filesystem but the world needs something faster. And by fast I also mean stable. Reiser4 would be an option but I don't see Apple giving Hans money to port the filesystem over and make it run flawlessly. XFS is another option Apple can use but it's not a wise choice for basic users. What makes the most sense is having the engineers at Apple create there own filesystem to use.
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