ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

[Chad Leigh]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:27 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> The thought of making the conversion to ZFS from HFS makes me shudder.
> It must really be useful only for new hardward or one in which you can
> start from a virgin disk already formatted with ZFS.
>
> This is accurate?

That is probably easiest.

>
> I appreciate the insight into why this file system is valuable - and
> if it IS a part of Leopard then I understand why having it available
> for developers to do some serious banging on in advance of the release
> would make a fall release a Good Thing.
>
> Are there consequences for the handling of metadata as a result of the
> file system change that a new Finder might make good use of (not to
> mention, say, Spotlight, etc)

I don't know as I am not up to speed on meta data handling etc on  
ZFS, though I believe it handles arbitrary meta data.

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In looking at the MacPro, I think they were designed with ZFS in mind  
-- lots of drive bays which let you use the power of ZFS better.

Chad