Apr 27, 2006
ZFS on the Mac ?
Caught this over at John Siracusas Blog - Apple looking for assistance porting ZFS to the Mac.
As John points out the performance overhead probably would preclude its use in consumer machines but for their server stuff it would be ideal. No point re-inventing the wheel for this type of thing if someone else has already done the work. As someone else pointed out hard-drives are getting to be so cheap its a wonder machines don't come with a mirrored pair for redundancy anyway.
For consumer stuff hopefully Apple can pull out a database driven file system like BeOS FS used to have . . .
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