ZFS in Leopard?
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/we...omments/11983/
Sounds to me like this is real. If this turns out to be true, how big a deal is it?
- Mark
Sounds to me like this is real. If this turns out to be true, how big a deal is it?
- Mark
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Sounds to me like this is real. If this turns out to be true, how big a deal is it?
Given some of the reports about ZFS, it could be a very big deal. Given that most consumer Macs have laptop hard drives, a high performance filesystem can make up for the lack of performance while maintaining the quietness and low power consumption:
http://cmynhier.blogspot.com/2006/05...chmarking.html
I like the name too. I would have preferred XFS to go with OS X but that's taken already.
I'd love it if Apple started shipping ipods as ZFS because that might start a universal acceptance of the format.
Source: http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.ph...pic=7201&st=15
Good news indeed!
Anything is possible.
So it's possible that Leopard will stick my Pizzas in the Microwave, download anything off the Internet at speeds faster then 400 Gbps and fly me to the moon?
Sebastian
Answer me this, is it anyway possible that the Leopard that ships will have a ZFS file system?
It looks like it will support the ZFS file system on secondary drives but, considering that ZFS isn't supported as a bootable filesystem by any OS, I doubt you'll be using it on your boot drive.
I suppose you could have the OS on an HFS+ partition and have a ZFS formatted working partition - which is the only way it would be usable on a Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac Mini, or iMac.
I suppose you could have the OS on an HFS+ partition and have a ZFS formatted working partition - which is the only way it would be usable on a Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac Mini, or iMac.
Or you could just use an External HDD.
Sebastian
Or you could just use an External HDD.
Sebastian
That's fine for an iMac or a Mini ... not so good if you want a great filesystem on your portable. Since work is being done on making it ZFS support bootable filesystems, I exepct that it will happen soon enough - more so, if Apple are throwing some engineering dollars behind it.
It looks like it will support the ZFS file system on secondary drives but, considering that ZFS isn't supported as a bootable filesystem by any OS, I doubt you'll be using it on your boot drive.
I know about this, and the fact that it's open source, but is it possible that Apple and Sun have something up their sleeves, with regards to ZFS and the Leopard release time-frame? Could that be one of the reasons that Leopard wont be released until spring?
That's fine for an iMac or a Mini ... not so good if you want a great filesystem on your portable. Since work is being done on making it ZFS support bootable filesystems, I exepct that it will happen soon enough - more so, if Apple are throwing some engineering dollars behind it.
Correct. But an External HDD is still one way to make this usable, even on a Laptop, just not the best way.
Sebastian
'Secret' features? Sounds good from what I can tell. More robost, flexible and efficient hard drive/data storage?
Lemon Bon Bon
Just found this:
Source: http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.ph...pic=7201&st=15
Good news indeed!
That image showing ZFS in what looks like Disk Utility appears to be slightly transparent. If you look closely there are some bullet points. I just opened Disk Utility (not on Leopard) and don't see any transparency in it. What's the explanation for this??? Is Leopard's Disk Utility transparent? Or is this some bad photoshop job?
That image showing ZFS in what looks like Disk Utility appears to be slightly transparent. If you look closely there are some bullet points. I just opened Disk Utility (not on Leopard) and don't see any transparency in it. What's the explanation for this??? Is Leopard's Disk Utility transparent? Or is this some bad photoshop job?
It looks like a sheet.
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NICE
Wow, good find Murch'.
Suhweet. Looks like it's coming along well.
Not well enough for a January release for Leopard though.
Vista consumer version is out on Jan 30th I believe so I guess it will have to be after that anyway.
I'm a bit surprised to see Apple is so far along with ZFS. Man this is going to be a boon for creative types that want to just create a nice big pool of storage. I didn't want to get my hopes up regarding ZFS but now the fire has been stoked.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee no more volume management!!!!