osnews.com — According to the zfs-discuss mailing list, Apple is interesting in porting Solaris' new (and rather advanced) filesystem, ZFS, to Mac OS X. ZFS features include a pooled storage model, protection from data corruption, fast backup/restore/snapshots/clones, built in compression, and is highly scalable.
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mscamaraApr 30, 2006
It's interesting that no ones complains when apple is adopting so many open source tools (i'm not saying that zfs is open source or not). If this was ms, it would be said they do it because their own solution is bad. It's also funny that ntfs has changed litlle since its early days when others file systems have improved so much. Is that to say that ms got ntfs right from the get go, and that its features have been copied by oves fs? like journalizing....
dscxApr 30, 2006
You watched it! You can't unwatch it! Stay tuned for more: Tales of Interesting!
diggnationdevonApr 30, 2006
XFS right now is the best file system. So Apple better do hell of a lot more then being interested, they should do it.
supersheepApr 30, 2006
ZFS is interesting (and innovative) for a bunch of reasons. The most important of these is that it does away with concepts like physical disks, partitions and volumes. You add your physical storage (be that local or network) to a "storage pool" from which you can withdraw storage. Need more storage? Just add another disk, run a command to add it to the storage pool, and there you go. Apple could win big with this; at the desktop level, they can keep their nice, simple disk layout no matter how many disks are in the box. They could even extend it to their filesharing stuff, letting you have one big pool for all your data with just a few clicks. There's other reasonably smart stuff in there; just check out Sun's ZFS page. <a class="user" href="http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/">http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/</a>
deusiahMay 1, 2006
Then just take a look at what the open source guys are doing, you can get the latest stuff before apple tweaks it and makes it closed source.