ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

[LuKreme]

On 6-Jun-2007, at 23:27, 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.

Well, it's probably MOST advantageous if you as starting clean  
beacuse you don't have to shuffle mounds of data.

Here's my plan, tentative, of course.

I will be adding 2x500 (or maybe even 2x750) SATA drives to my  
system.  I will make them a ZFS Pool.  and install Leopard on them,  
copying over my $HOME data.  I will start migrating all the video and  
mp3s off the 400GB and 250GB SATA drives, and once each is empty, I  
will add it into the ZFS pool.  My 500GB external will NOT be part of  
the pool and neither will me 320GB external, which I currently move  
between my machine and the 'family' computer when I need to move lots- 
o-data.  I will end up with a ZFS pool of 4 SATA drives and a non-zfs  
500GB USB3 which will probably hold a copy of /Users/ and my iTunes  
library (mp3 m4a m4b and m4p only, no video).

> 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 think the biggest issue, and it's not a very big one, is that ZFS  
is case sensitive as I understand it, so going forward OS X will be  
case sensitive at least at the terminal level.  Not sure how the  
Finder is going to deal, but I am still hoping Leopard will not have  
a Finder.app as we currently understand it.


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