blogs.zdnet.com — Finally, a modern file system on a consumer OS As if Grand Central weren't enough bad news for Microsoft, now they have ZFS to contend with. Building a reliable, high-performance file system takes years and Microsoft doesn't have years to respond. The formal announcement is for Snow Leopard server, which is how Apple introduces new file systems.
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locojonesJun 20, 2008
Buzz buzz buzz words, yay!
gruntboyxJun 21, 2008
I don't know if anyone noticed but the article is just seeded with flame bait. Personally the article should be buried, for a article referencing Sun's work on ZFS. Example:Turning up the heat on MicrosoftFor all of Microsoft’s fine talk about innovation they don’t do squat unless someone else does it first. Remember IE 6? ZFS is a modern and innovative file system that solves some difficult data storage and integrity problems. Like these: Was that necessary? crappy journalismI am half expecting a winfs announcement any day now. I mean they have been working on it since 2003 and they did say it would be ready for the next version of windows.
ka2errJun 22, 2008
No, it tries to repair it silently.
rasterbatorJun 22, 2008
How about:1. XP is long in tooth2. Vista was cannibalized and never made it to market with MS feature promises3. Some Vista users reverting to XP4. OEMs somewhat reluctant to sell Vista machines, and choose to sell combo of XP, Vista and add Linux as an option5. Zune complete failure – Join the Social!6. Zune2 about to be complete failure – PLEASE Joint the Social?7. Windows mobile is long in the tooth; Blackberry, Symbian and now OS X Mobile all better than Windows mobileYou get the idea…
thommymJun 22, 2008
Yepp, data can be corrupt before hitting the disks like your horse manure seems to be.
thommymJun 22, 2008
snapshots are lovely especially at upgrades.
brendansheehanJun 22, 2008
That was a German accent.
winampman2Jun 23, 2008
Thats absolutely true, they have been making mistakes lately. But the point is, with $25bn in cash, these things aren't going to hurt them in the long run.
aoe2bugJun 23, 2008
if someone doesnt know what "overhead" "versioning" and "compression" are, they dont need to know what ZFS is.anyone interested in knowing about computers should be able to atleast decode "raid array" and "device driver". "transparent redundancy" and "storage pools" might need to be explained: transparent redundancy: if there is a hardware failure, there is already another copy on another disk and it will be automatically used.storage pools: its just a way to abstract different devices / partitions / whatever into one big ol' "disk". think car pool. its a group of storage. (and redundancy is done within this pool)