Apple Looking To Port ZFS for Mac OS X?
ZFS is a relatively new open-source file system backed by Sun. As such, it is included in recent versions of Solaris for SPARC and x86 architectures. A comparison of HFS+ (what Mac OS X currently uses as its default file system) and other file systems including ZFS can be found on this wikipedia page.
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With its variable-size adaptive block sizes and constant-time directory operations, it promises great performance too.
Sorry...
One of ZFS's features is "adaptive endian-ness", meaning that you can use a disk with a ZFS filesystem on either a big-endian or little-endian platform and it's portable back and forth.
With its variable-size adaptive block sizes and constant-time directory operations, it promises great performance too.
One of ZFS's features is "adaptive endian-ness", meaning that you can use a disk with a ZFS filesystem on either a big-endian or little-endian platform and it's portable back and forth.
With its variable-size adaptive block sizes and constant-time directory operations, it promises great performance too.
HFS+ can do this too, if I'm not mistaken... The Macintels are still using HFS+, right? Can't you still interchange them?
Apple's changing their file system with 10.5?
No, this is most likely the next system. If Apple has JUST contacted Sun, it wouldn't be for inclusion in an OS that is probably going to be released near the end of the year or beginning of next.
Who cares about this stuff. The average consumer sure doesn't. Just show us the merchandise!
No, this is most likely the next system. If Apple has JUST contacted Sun, it wouldn't be for inclusion in an OS that is probably going to be released near the end of the year or beginning of next.
Ah. Good point. Back to writing my paper...
So....ZFS can store "16 billion billion times the capacity of current 64-bit systems" (acc. to wikipedia). So I would actually expect MS to integrate this into Vista, which is estimated to be 16 billion billion times the size of XP.
Thats a 16 billion billion better chance of a BSOD
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