ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

LuKreme kremels at kreme.com
Wed Jun 6 23:52:13 PDT 2007


On 6-Jun-2007, at 19:07, Charles Dyer wrote:
> (in my case, One Giant 820 GB disk)

Bwahahahah, piddly little 820GB pool described as HUGE!  Bwahahahaha!

Er, sorry.

> 2 When I want to back up I plug in an additional 320 GB drive  
> (System Backup) and a 500 GB drive (Non System Backup) and have  
> SuperDuper! and Silverlining respectively dump files over. Would  
> ZFS see the two backup drives as part of the One Giant Disk, now  
> 1640 GB, or would there be Two Giant Disks, or what?

Depends on what you tell it to do.  It does HAVE to add drives to a  
pool.

> How do I control this, how do I set it up, where can I find more info?

Details will be coming in October.  Leaks may be coming next week.

> 3 I've heard that ZFS needs hefty CPU power.

it's 128 bit addressing.

> Someone elsewhere suggested that it might require 64-bit CPUs

er... somewho where?

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