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ZFS In Leopard

Friday August 25, 2006 6:52 am PDT by longofest
According to a MacRumors developer source, ZFS has been added to the list of file systems in the vnode.h header file in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, which could indicate preliminary support for the file system. Apple had contacted Sun earlier this year about the possibility of porting ZFS to Mac OS X.

Due to ZFS's high redundancy features, some in the technical community had wondered whether Leopard's Time Machine was simply a front end to a ZFS implementation in Leopard. At this point, it appears as though Apple is still using HFS+ as its default file system. ArsTechnica presents a decent up-to-date summary of ZFS and how it may impact Mac users.
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tny
71 months ago

At this point, it appears as though Apple is still using HFS+ as its default file system. ArsTechnica presents a decent up-to-date summary of ZFS and how it may impact Mac users.


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7on
71 months ago
I like ZFS. If the only things it does is make Permissions work better.
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AvSRoCkCO1067
71 months ago

I lie ZFS. If the only things it does is make Permissions work better.


So mad jew should LOVE ZFS....:p
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mkrishnan
71 months ago

So mad jew should LOVE ZFS....:p


Are you kidding? If Apple eliminates the need to repair permissions, Mad Jew's post rate will plummet! :eek: :p ;)
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ffakr
71 months ago
This may be under nda so lets just say that vnode.h in the Leopard Dev Tools does not NOT contain zfs.

I'll also say that it probably doesn't appear that it's actually implemented anywhere yet.

Is that cryptic enough?

As Apple says about ZFS support,.. they can't comment on unannounced product releases.
Apple has two catch phrases for feedback.* "We'll take that under consideration" which translates to.. OK, enough, we're moving on.
The other catch phrase is 'we can't comment on unannounced products'.* I'll leave that translation to your imagination.
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lopresmb
71 months ago
Talk about leap-frogging vista (in which a new file system was supposed to be a big new feature, and was scrapped).
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bousozoku
71 months ago
It's only a header file. It has no real bearing on anything other than to keep a place for the file system definition.

Apple has had plenty of time to integrate UFS2 but it hasn't done that either. It's certainly possible that both could be in there with a new FreeBSD kernel but that's yet to be seen.

I suspect the top secret features may include these but I wouldn't bet on anything working out.
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vouder17
71 months ago
Can we have screen shots!!!

Ok it is a joke...lets see the reactions
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thejadedmonkey
71 months ago

Can we have screen shots!!!

Ok it is a joke...lets see the reactions

Preferrably blurry elevator ones?:p

Seriously, this would be great. I did some basic reading on ZFS and I must say, I really think it's a nice file system.
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m-dogg
71 months ago
I like that idea of snapshots in ZFS though. If that isn't part of Leopard's Time Machine, maybe in a future release?
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