“Apple on Wednesday provided developers with ‘ZFS on Mac OS X Preview 1.1’ and associated documentation, in which the company asserted that it alone was responsible for porting the filesystem to Mac OS X,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Apple “also officially confirmed to developers receiving the pre-release software that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard… will officially support ZFS, albeit restricted to a read-only implementation with which no ZFS pools or filesystems can be modified,” McLean reports.
“Developers receiving the latest ZFS preview, however, are granted access to full read and write capabilities under Leopard, including the ability to create and destruct ZFS pools and filesystems… [in] a telltale sign that Apple plans further adoption of ZFS under Mac OS X as the operating system matures. It’s further believed that ZFS is a candidate to eventually succeed HFS+ as the default operating system [sic: means “filesystem”] for Mac OS X,” McLean reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
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that would be great.
This is great news! Let’s hope after it’s been worked on for a while, ZFS will become the official file system of OS X. I’ve heard it is capable of many amazing things in comparison to HFS+, which one must admit though has been a great file system for a great many years (since OS 8.1 I seem to remember); and its recent capability in journaling has been a great help in my experience to many Macs suffering from unexpected shutdowns.
I beleive ZFS can combine all your drive volumes so that they appear as one volume. This would be cool since it will allow one to make good use of smaller drives when more capacity is required.
ZFS has a lot of possability, but until it has a few issues (can you boot off of it yet) worked out, it is right were it should be. with the devs.
Placing OS X years ahead of M$.
No change there then!!!
Now this is real good news.
Outstanding. One more reason for many in the HPC community to switch to Mac OS X.
Leopard is a little more than 9 months late. The very first date that Steve gave was “Late 2006 or early 2007” which means about Jan 1, 2007.
Not withstanding, 10.5 is 5 years ahead of anyone else and will surely kick butt!
This is kind of a secret feature.
MW “served,” as in, “You’ve been.”
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Could there be any problems using ZFS with a solid state chip instead of a ordinary HD?
No surprise. The Sun dude spilled the beans in May/June.
Lets just hope the NetApp lawsuite agains Sun for ZFS doesn’t spoil adoption by Apple.
Haven’t heard anything about this since the spillage Shogun mentioned; the rumor just sort of died. This is great news.
my HFS feels snappier
@drmacnut: FYI jHFS+ is the current Mac filesystem (that is except for certain recent MacBookPros for which Apple forgot to turn on journaling).
Apple should just get it all over with and acquire Sun and Adobe.
In some ways ZFS looks a bit like LVM (Logical Volume Management) available in Linux and possibly FreeBSD. You have a bunch of drives which are thrown in a storage pool and from that pool you can allocate partitions. You can easily resize partitions, delete partitions or add partitions. You can add or remove drives to the pool on the fly. (this is not an exact description).
Thanks, Tommy Boy.