ZFS to become default file system in OS X?

[LuKreme]

On 14-Jun-2007, at 19:23, Ashley Aitken wrote:
> On 15/06/2007, at 6:04 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:
>>> One of the most obvious and immediate benefits is that ZFS supports
>>> Time Machine much more robustly and efficiently then HFS+ can.
>>
>> This is a remarkable statement.  What makes you think that??
>
> I won't speak to robustness and efficiency (although I agree with  
> Shawn and Finlay) but I do know that ZFS pools would be a fantastic  
> plus for Time Machine.

Not just the pools, but as Finlay said, snapshots.  Lots of things in  
ZFS seem almost specifically designed for a tool like Time Machine.

> I tend to fill up my disks, so trying to save an incremental backup  
> to a similar sized disk isn't going to be too effective (even if I  
> use the latest more expensive bigger drives).

At least Time Machine let's you choose what drives to backup.  I will  
backup my boot partition, which contains /Users and most all  
documents and such.  I will not be backing up the 1TB of other data.

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