Apple chucks ZFS for OS X 10.6

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited June 2009 in Science & Tech
Apple chucks ZFS for OS X 10.6

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  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    I've wondered if removing PPC compatibility saved disk space, too.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Absolutely. That's a whole lot of legacy code that's no longer needed.
  • Jonathan Gardner
    edited June 2009
    At least with the removal of all of that code we will get some more room for music and pictures...

    Bright side?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited June 2009
    If you are on an intel mac it's good news no two ways about it. If you are on a PPC, leopard is still solid. It just means you are slowly being left behind.

    But for us intel boys snow leopard shall be a nice boost. Bloat cut out, speed tweaks and stability improvements. Full sails ahead. Least of all $29 for the upgrade version for all woo hoo
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Is there an upgrade path for Tiger, or is there only the full-price retail box?
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Is there a chance they dumped ZFS thanks to the Oracle/Sun buyout? Licensing issue or something?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    More than likely because it's totally pointless. ZFS is an enterprise FS with enhancements for real virtualization and databasing, neither of which Snow Leopard is going to be doing.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    I'm just glad it'll free up space on my mom's Mac Mini. I haven't had time to put in a proper sized hard drive yet.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    I agree with Thrax. More or less, it would of been totally pointless.

    If we want to really point fingers, we could mention the never-to-be-seen WinFS .... ;)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    WinFS is now a part of MSSQL's internal file system.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Mildly off topic, but not really...

    How freaking old is OSX now?? Its kinda like Gmail still is in Beta. Kodiak/Cheetah/Puma Jaguar/Panther/Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard. All iterations of OSX.

    Think one day Apple will work less at looking innovative, and work more at actually innovating?
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    lol, I don't think Windows users have much room to talk about innovating. ;)

    Win7 is finally bringing something new to the table (which Vista should of had), and how many years has it been :D
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Jared,

    Microsoft does not nickel and dime its users for its service packs either.
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    No, they just charge an arm and a leg when they release a new OS (then they put out about 7594387593847 different versions) - which until now has been about every 5-6 years.

    So I suppose it's about even then? :)
  • C.Shamis
    edited June 2009
    Cliff:

    Leopard has had 7 service packs since its debut in 2005; all of which have been free. On average, that works out to about one every 6 months. Windows XP was released in 2001 and had... 3. Even though Windows has had thousands of hotfixes, MS only "rolls them up" into full-fledged Service Packs once every 3 years on average. So... I guess they just do things differently.

    -C.
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