ZFS is on Leopard... Sorta.
"ZFS is not the default file system for Leopard. We are exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage. As a result, we have included ZFS -- a read-only copy of ZFS -- in Leopard."
This means that Leopard will be able to read ZFS volumes... assuming there was a way to write to one on Mac OS X, which there isn't... yet.
"Read-only means that at a later date, if there are ZFS volumes, those systems would be able to read ZFS volumes," Croll added. "You cannot write data into the system. It will allow you to read ZFS volumes later."
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If it were available as a boot option but not default I would probably use it.
This means that Leopard will be able to read ZFS volumes... assuming there was a way to create one on Mac OS X, which there isn't... yet.
Without being a developer I can't tell you if this is correct or not, but the first comment on the original article indicates that the Leopard Developer Beta allows you to create ZFS volumes via Disk Utility...
Without being a developer I can't tell you if this is correct or not, but the first comment on the original article indicates that the Leopard Developer Beta allows you to create ZFS volumes via Disk Utility...
hmm.... I guess before we go through this again.
I'll move it to page two, until we hear otherwise.
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1) everyone who has thought time machine would use zfs does not understand how zfs works. I'll never understand why people who don't know what they're talking about like to pretend they do on the internet..there's plenty of things i don't know..i don't pretend to know any of them..
Time machine uses a second disk (or, an additional storage device). this is not how zfs snapshots work. zfs snapshots are created by not freeing the old data when modified data is written, that is all.
2) i am going to cry and cut myself if we're really stuck with a read only version of zfs...
btw, in the developer previews (9a410 was the only one i tried this in) you can easily create zfs volumes with the zpool command line utility. so does this mean they're going to gimp it? that makes me sad... i use zfs at work and i was really excited to have zfs on osx...
I can only hope that this isn't accurate...and i can at least have a fully functional zfs implementation via the command line. which is all i ask...
Thanks in advance!
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