ZFS goes open source

18 Nov 2005

ZFS is a pretty nifty file system used by Solaris. Sun has just made it available as an open source product. It's of limited use anywhere except the server, so I wonder how much porting will be done on it. I imagine with Reiser and all those other FS ported to Linux, it won't be long before ZFS makes the leap.

Will Apple do anything with it? After all, wasn't its virtual file system support one of the great high-end features touted when OS X first leapt onto our computers? What have we got so far: FAT, FAT32, UFS, HFS+ (journaled), case-sensitive HFS+, plus a few CD file systems and a limited, community port of NTFS. Not very impressive so far. ZFS support could be the kind of thing that could make enterprises think really seriously about OS X Server.

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Posted by Rob Buckley on Friday, November 18, 2005 at 9:13 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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Agreed, I think Apple should consider using ZFS.

Jesse | January 20, 2006 12:11 AM | Reply

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