Sun ZFS to be the File system in Mac OS X Leopard.

[gxsaurav]

Found this on Engadget via Zdnet.

You dealt with it when Apple switched you from MFS to HFS, and again you were switched from HFS to HFS+ (and even journaled HFS+), and you'll deal with it again: according to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz (whom you may know for his totally righteous pony tail), Apple is going to use Sun's crazy advanced ZFS file system when they move users over to Leopard. The material advantages may not be immediately apparent to the average user (when was the last time you whipped up a multi-exabyte file?), but it will do some excellentay things like storage pooling (aka virtual storage), block-journaling, and plenty of other nerdy things about which you can read up on elsewhere. Expect to hear more about this one next Monday at WWDC.

Here is some info about ZFS. Wikipedia Link

Sounds nice, Spotlight indexing takes a lot of time just like any other indexing out there. This will ease things up for Apple & Time Machine. Keep in mind, ZFS was already developed in 2005 by Sun, & it is at complete state today. Apple just needs to copy the open source code from Sun & implement it.

It is a 128bit file system, quite Huggggggggggggggge I would say. This is taken from the wikipedia page..

Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans

Lolz....somebody save earth now.

There is indeed a problem in ZFS. You cannot upgrade an existing disk to ZFS without formating it completely, 2nd, since everything is a big zpool, if one HD dies, the data in other HDs also have a chance to die together.

P.S.- Just a news, plz no talk about WinFS.

 

[goobimama]

I just hope I can write to NTFS with leopard....

 

[gxsaurav]

You can do it right now using MacFUSE & NTFS 3G too. I am using it right now in Tiger. Already posted a tutorial in fight club section.