ZFS not included with Snow Leopard Server?
updated 10:10 am EDT, Wed June 10, 2009
Snow Leopard includes ZFS?
The long-expected addition of ZFS to Snow Leopard Server may have been silently dropped. Although Apple has previously indicated that the file management system would be a part of Server, ZFS was not mentioned in yesterday's keynote, and is not listed in the features on Apple's website.
ZFS has been labeled an important development for Mac OS X, a supplement to Apple's current HFS+ and UFS read-only systems. The update would have added a tree-based 128-bit checksum system that verifies and corrects, and a pooled storage model, eliminating the need for partitions. It also would also have enabled live disk-scrubbing capabilities that read all storage blocks, and compare them to the 128-bit checksum tree to correct errors.
Apple has not issued any comment one way or another on the matter.
surprising!
06/10, 12:35pm (1 reply) reply
You don't expect Apple to actually give you what you want do you? ...only what they decide that they think that you want! :)
Feathers
Forum Regular
Joined: Oct 1999
Sun and legal problems...
06/10, 01:34pm reply
I believe someone filed a lawsuit against Sun regarding ZFS. My guess is lawyers killed this.
boulder1259
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: May 2002
A file system...
06/10, 01:36pm reply
...implementation isn't really something you can ship partially-working/broken and then fix later with an update.
I'd bet Apple will get ZFS out before we see WinFS appear. Any takers? :-)
phillymjs
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jun 2000
Re: A file system
06/10, 02:38pm reply
Except ZFS is a proven working file system. One wonders why it would take so long to gain implementation (since it has been talked about for years).
testudo
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Aug 2001
i wwwish...
06/11, 06:51am reply
...THEY'D HURRY UP AND 'JUST DO IT'!
i've been longing for ZFS by default for yonks
roberto
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jun 2007