Reliable Firewire drives

John C. Welch jwelch at bynkii.com
Fri Jan 11 04:45:57 PST 2008


On 01/11/2008 03:34 AM, "Dan Shoop" <shoop at iwiring.net> wrote:

>>> I guess the point I was trying to make is that ZFS makes Time Machine
>>> moot. It just does it's thing and doesn't need to have all the
>>> overheard of fsevents and nasty hard links for directories.
>> 
>> Also, fsevents aren't for the FS, they're for higher level programs
>> that
>> want to know when things happen to the FS.
> 
> 
> Um... like Time Machine.
> 
> In reality fsevents supports Time Machine and not much (usefully) else.

Incorrect. There are a number of things that use fsevents. Try RTFM'ing the
Mac OS X 10.5 Dev Docs a bit better.

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