On 7-Jun-07, at 4:53 PM, Lee Fyock wrote:
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.
OS X is radically different from Solaris, it would not surprise me at
all if Apple ships this functionality for their integrated hardware. :)
In general, IMHO this will be good for ZFS: Apple won't ship until
it's shaken down and idiot proof. I expect this will result in
substantial quality feedback and patches from Apple, which we
probably have not seen yet due to their traditional pre-release secrecy?
--Toby
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.
---
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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