“According to published reports on the internet, Apple has actually seeded developers with a ZFS Read/Write Beta for Leopard. The new ZFS Read/Write beta enables full read/write capabilities to Apple’s Mac OS X (Leopard),” arn reports for MacRumors.
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Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider, “Sun’s recent ZFS will appear in a limited form as promised, those aware of its inner workings note. Despite Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’ protests to the contrary, the unique file system will appear as a non-default, read-only format out of the box with write support possibly arriving as a separate update in the future. Regardless of access, however, ZFS in Leopard will support some of the trademark features, such as instant and low-storage “snapshots” of a disk volume, and cloned copies that can be modified with only a small penalty in terms of disk space.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
