http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/ Engadget Comments for Leopard does / does not use ZFS, part III: it does! (kinda) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/
By the sound of it, there won't be too much of an appicable use of ZFS...

Go HFS+!]]>Jun 13th 2007 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/Jun 13th 2007 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/Jun 13th 2007 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/Jun 13th 2007 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/I'm astonished that anyone seriously considered ZFS could be a contender for Leopards default (system disk) filesystem. New, untried, untested filesystems are always buggy at the start. And by their nature sometimes those bugs can be very nasty because it's your data they affect. Apple would have been stark raving bonkers to have attempted to use ZFS as the default f/s today; no matter how stable it appears in the lab. They're doing the right thing. They will take their time; let people use it as a technology preview, then enable it as a fully functional data-only filesystem. In my experience I would expect ZFS to be mature enough of OS X (tested, debugged, patched) and ready as a default boot filesystem about two years from now, at the earliest.

OS vendors only use boot filesystems that they KNOW are robust and bullet proof, because just one system crash resulting in sys disk corruption is one too many.


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The way that Intel is putting Virtualization (vPRO) into its hardware Apple is likely to put the OS into its own partition using HFS+ and putting all the user files using ZFS and Windows under NTFS into separate partitions. This is much better security. The Mac OS is rather immune to a virus taking over the system at Root privileges, but the Crackers keep trying. So, compartmentalizing the OS makes sense.

And ZFS will not simply be for high-end storage systems with really large storage. I remember when we had disk drives measured in Megabytes, now Gigabytes and eventually Terabytes. Its nice to have a file system that can handle Zettabytes.]]>Jun 13th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/13/leopard-does-does-not-use-zfs-part-iii-it-does-kinda/Jun 14th 2007 12:41AM