“Over the past couple of years, there’s been a lot of talk about bringing ZFS, Sun’s open source high-performance file system, to Mac OS X. Our man Siracusa first pointed out a message from an Apple developer last year expressing a desire to work on porting the file system to Apple’s OS, and talked more about its possible ties (or lack thereof) to Time Machine not long after. Even more recently, ZFS became accessible under OS X thanks to the MacFUSE project. Still, there’s been little word on the state of ZFS for OS X recently,” Erik Kennedy reports for Ars Technica.
“Now, it looks as though the port is not just wishful thinking, but an active project,” Kennedy reports.
Full article here.
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>Braindead idiots piss me off.
Some people like to communicate with people. Others don’t. Case in point.
Man
Will the ZFS in Leopard be like MFP in flouride?
> allows you to just add disks to your system and the single filesystem that you keep everything in would just appear to get bigger.
Now, that is pretty “magical.” If Leopard had it, even on its non-boot disk storage drives, that would be a major advantage for power users.
It’s much more than just allowing several disks to look like one.
It automatically backs data up as well, and repairs loss, and faults in the system. It’s one of tbe more reliable file systems around.
While nothing is bulletproof, this is pretty close.
Cubert: MDN’s site shows the Apple symbol as a square for some reason
Yes, the is an Apple, but it’s not MDN that is rendering it as a square…
1: Only Mac’s can see the (Windows users can’t play).
2: Only IE and Gecko browsers can’t see the
Safari can see the
OmniWeb can see the
Shiira can see the
SunRise can see the
iCab can see the
Opera can see the
Firefox CANNOT see the
Camino CANNOT see the
Flock CANNOT see the
SeaMonkey CANNOT see the
Netscape CANNOT see the
Internet Exploder CANNOT see the
If you are using any of the over 100 (no, that’s NOT*) other browsers for Mac, you’re mileage may vary.
* Extensive, detailed, regularly updated list of over 100 browsers for Mac: http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html
“Braindead idiots piss me off.”
Sounds like EVERYTHING pisses you off.
Well, ?Apple, that explains it. At work I’m forced to use Winblows (but I moderate my pain by using Firefox). At home, it’s Macintosh only (of course), but I still prefer Firefox. Although, I must admit that the quirks in 2.0 are starting to piss me off!
So ZFS makes files whiter than ever AND has fluoride ? I’m confused but my mouth feels fresh. Oh, wait, reading more… I don’t have a net. Do you need to catch ZFS with a net ?
MW: white. What a coincidence .
Why are there so many idiots that post asinine questions like…. How the hell do people like that make it past 5th grade?
<cough>
I’ll be vary impressed if Leopard can separate the energy levels of an electron spin even in the absence of an applied magnetic field.
@Cubert
Apologies for posting off topic, but I know this probably bugs other dual OS users, as much as it did me.
To see that elusive [Apple] in Firefox, I set my default font to Geneva and DISABLED allowing pages to choose their own fonts (there are probably other ways, but this works for me). Warning: May screw with some CSS – I could care less.
This nearly drove me nuts because I am also a Firefox user on both Mac and Windows (Don’t even get me started on THAT…).
Man, you needn’t feel so superior. None of us knows it all. Obviously.
MW= ‘make’ as in “Please don’t make me use Windows again…”
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