Thanks, Chad.
There's some debate in the Mac community about what the phrase "the
file system in Mac OS X" means. Does that mean that machines that
ship with Leopard will run on ZFS discs by default? Will ZFS be the
default file system when initializing a new drive?
IMHO, that seems unlikely, given that zfs boot is still an unreleased
feature. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though.
If there's anyone in the know, please feel free to speak up. :-)
Thanks,
Lee
On Jun 7, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
On Jun 7, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
From Macintouch (http://macintouch.com/#other.2007.06.07):
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On stage Wednesday in Washington D.C., Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO
Jonathan Schwartz revealed that his company's open-source ZFS file
system will replace Apple's long-used HFS+ in Mac OS X 10.5,
a.k.a. "Leopard," when the new operating system ships this fall.
"This week, you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide
Developers Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac
OS X," said Schwartz.
ZFS (Zettabyte File System), designed by Sun for its Solaris OS
but licensed as open-source, is a 128-bit file storage system that
features, among other things, "pooled storage," which means that
users simply plug in additional drives to add space, without
worrying about such traditional storage parameters as volumes or
partitions.
"[ZFS] eliminates volume management, it has extremely high
performance.... It permits the failure of disk drives," crowed
Schwartz during a presentation focused on Sun's new blade servers.
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We'll see next week what Steve announces at the WWDC keynote (which
is not under NDA like the rest of the conference). I'll be there
and try to remember to post what is said (though it will probably
be in a billion other places as well)
Chad
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