ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard
Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (video link, requires RealPlayer).
Rumors of Apple's interest in ZFS began in April 2006, when an OpenSolaris mailing list revealed that Apple had contacted Sun regarding porting ZFS to OS 10. The file system later began making appearances in Leopard builds.
ZFS has a long list of improvements over Apple's current file system, Journaled HFS+. More information on ZFS is available at the ZFS homepage and Wikipedia.
For live coverage of WWDC (text and photos), you know where to turn.
In fact, this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10.
Rumors of Apple's interest in ZFS began in April 2006, when an OpenSolaris mailing list revealed that Apple had contacted Sun regarding porting ZFS to OS 10. The file system later began making appearances in Leopard builds.
ZFS has a long list of improvements over Apple's current file system, Journaled HFS+. More information on ZFS is available at the ZFS homepage and Wikipedia.
For live coverage of WWDC (text and photos), you know where to turn.
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61 months ago
cool all talk about the ZFS file system stopped shortly after the public unveiling of Leopard.
61 months ago
Great news--hopefully this is part of Apple creating a huge update to Finder.
61 months ago
Am I wrong or does this make Time Machine's backups smaller; like reference files?
61 months ago
This is very good news. ZFS is an awesome file system. This will also hopefully make compatibility with other OS's better too.
-Ted
-Ted
61 months ago
how will existing Tiger users handle a system upgrade?
Have Apple and Sun come up with a way to migrate a user's setup from one file system to another??
Have Apple and Sun come up with a way to migrate a user's setup from one file system to another??
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