ZFS canned for Leopard

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited June 2007 in Science & Tech
Despite statements that the ZFS file system (Redundancy ho!) would power Apple's new <i>Leopard</i> OS, Apple has dropped the bomb and said that it's not the case. HFS+, the current standard, ran up the alternative flagpole in 1998, will continue to be the FS of choice in the near future.

In the mean time, sales of black turtle-necks are expected to decline.

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  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Its not totally canned. I believe if the sources are correct that leopard will be able to read, but not write to ZFS. Which leads me to believe they are looking at a future implementation.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Yay semantics. :skeptic:
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited June 2007
    It was in some of the beta versions and I would suspect that they'll save it for the server version of leopard. It's an extremely robust file system that could be argued is overkill for a home system but perfectly at home on a server.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Sun just got bootable ZFS volumes on their OWN OS. The cpu overhead is intense on this filesystem, it's designed for enterprise boxes. Remember, A solaris 10 enterprise system sometimes has hundreds of processors, so a little CPU overhead for a kickass bulletproof filesystem is acceptable.... but on a little desktop computer with 2 or 4 cpus? Not acceptable..
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Read-only for now has been confirmed by an Apple spokesperson. It will probably be in Xserve, but of course, Apple isn't talking about that.

    I think it was funny that Brian Croll (senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing) said "ZFS is not happening" on Monday, only to have to come back yesterday and admit to it being partially implemented.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    Gargoyle wrote:
    Read-only for now has been confirmed by an Apple spokesperson. It will probably be in Xserve, but of course, Apple isn't talking about that.

    I think it was funny that Brian Croll (senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing) said "ZFS is not happening" on Monday, only to have to come back yesterday and admit to it being partially implemented.
    airbornflght wrote:
    Its not totally canned. I believe if the sources are correct that leopard will be able to read, but not write to ZFS. Which leads me to believe they are looking at a future implementation.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    :rolleyes: Yes, I read your post before I posted. Yes, I still posted. Do you want me to explain why, or something?
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    no, its quite alright ;D
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    airbornflght wrote:
    no, its quite alright ;D

    Just as well; it's all very complicated, really. It involved pandas.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2007
    http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zfs_on_a_laptop

    interesting.
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