ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

Chad Leigh chad at objectwerks.com
Wed Jun 6 12:36:48 PDT 2007


On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Matt Penna wrote:

> There's been speculation on this for some time, but according to a  
> Sun keynote presentation, ZFS will "become the file system in Mac  
> OS X" and this will be announced at WWDC. I assume this means it  
> will be the default, since it was already known that it was to be  
> included.
>
> http://www.sun.com/jsp_utils/rvideo.jsp? 
> video=74cd4547-01df-440b-823d-48878ae34c73
>
> He mentions Mac OS X at around 27 minutes in. Real Player required,  
> unfortunately.
>
> More on ZFS for those who are unfamiliar with it: http:// 
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_File_System
>
> Seems like very positive news!


This would assume they have a bootable version of ZFS running (which  
they could have), something Sun does not even ship yet.

I am excited. I run a ZFS file server on Solaris right now

Chad



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