ZFS to become default file system in OS X?
Kevin Callahan
kcall at mac.com
Wed Jun 6 12:44:02 PDT 2007
On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Chad Leigh wrote:
>
> 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
what might be some of the benefits a home network will see ?
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