ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

[Chad Leigh]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

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> On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Chad Leigh wrote:
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>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Matt Penna wrote:
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>>> 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!
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>> This would assume they have a bootable version of ZFS running  
>> (which they could have), something Sun does not even ship yet.
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>> I am excited. I run a ZFS file server on Solaris right now
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>> Chad
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> what might be some of the benefits a home network will see ?

Well, all your disks become one volume (assuming a raidz or raidz2  
configuration).  And you should be able to increase the size of that  
volume by adding in a new disk.  No more having to worry about a boot  
disk versus extra data disks and needing more space and adding it in  
but now how do you move your data around or split across the new  
disk...  That sort of thing.  Plus data integrity.  Look at the  
wikipedia article and google ZFS

Chad