ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

[Matt Penna]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> what might be some of the benefits a home network will see ?
>

In addition to the storage pooling mentioned so far (which is the  
feature I'm most interested in personally), the ability to do  
snapshots very easily should be a boon to Time Machine.

Variable block sizes for efficient storage of very small files also  
promises benefits when storing many files that don't take up much  
real space (like preference files, source code, etc.) but occupy 4K  
on the disk regardless. This adds up very quickly.

There are a handful of other less obvious benefits. The Wikipedia  
article is not super technical and is for the most part  
understandable by "power users." (My mom wouldn't get it either,  
Matt. :) )

There is the issue of case sensitivity. ZFS is a case-sensitive file  
system which will simply not work (for practical reasons) on a  
consumer-oriented OS. I believe there was work initiated in April to  
allow ZFS to work in a case-preserved manner as HFS+ does by default.

I really hope this is true! I'm tired of dealing with 3 or 4 separate  
hard disks in my systems. :P

	Matt