ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

[Charles Dyer]

On 07 Jun 2007, at 02:52:13, LuKreme wrote:

> 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!

Be nice, I'm in deepest Florida, where the nearest civilisation is  
Atlanta. Things move slow here in the backwoods.

>
> Er, sorry.

Forgiven. This time.

>
>> 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.

I'd just _love_ there to be Two Giant Disks which were set to have  
the second one automatically mirror the first. Instant backup.

>
>> 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.

That'll be interesting.

>
>> 3 I've heard that ZFS needs hefty CPU power.
>
> it's 128 bit addressing.

Yep.

>
>> Someone elsewhere suggested that it might require 64-bit CPUs
>
> er... somewho where?

In that deep, deep, deep swamp (and we know about swamps in  
Florida...) of misinformation known as USENET. Which is one reason  
why I'd like someone who actually knows what's what to to produce  
actual info. Let's just say that I'm not particularly confident in  
using USENET as a primary source.