I'm not sure how many folks have been mourning the seeming loss of ZFS for Mac OS X for as long as I have... but I thought that this was not only great news, but a tremendous opportunity for folks to really pitch in and help a very worthwhile project for those who value their data!<p>Very exciting!
What I'm actually more interested in is what Apple is intending on using instead of ZFS.<p>All indications are that ZFS will <i>not</i> be the next filesystem for OS X, yet they'll need to replace HFS soon seeing as it's the worst-performing and fewest-featured filesystem in use with this generation of operating systems. HFS+ is showing its age in multiple places, and Apple could really take advantage of some of the newer features available in modern filesystems to make a huge difference and increase the power and performance behind some of the current features (a la Time Machine), with techniques such as snapshots, transactioned reads/writes, and more.
"Breaths new life" is a bit misleading' no? From the project page: "this code project will be used to record issues and ongoing development (if any) of this extension"<p>As well, only a single commit to the git repo since July. :(
For those (like me) who are clueless on what ZFS is, the wiki page has a good overview:<p><pre><code> In computing, ZFS is a combined file system
and logical volume manager designed by Sun
Microsystems. The features of ZFS include
data integrity (protection against bit rot,
etc), support for high storage capacities,
integration of the concepts of filesystem
and volume management, snapshots and
copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity
checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and
native NFSv4 ACLs.
</code></pre>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS</a>
Does anyone know if Oracle is still developing ZFS, or just Btrfs? Has the situation changed so that Apple may include it on next iterations of OS X, or are we stuck with HSF+ forever?
ZFS runs amazingly well on FreeBSD at the moment. Very, very stable and incredible. I love having to not worry about bad blocks / sectors anymore! I also love raid-z2 which allows 2 failed drives simultaneously. Just an amazing comfort. We can see this on Mac OS X with some effort!
ZFS is fantastic; it was my file system when I ran Solarid on my Sun workstation (until I replaced it with Ubuntu).<p>I did get bitten once, wiping out a whole bunch of data very unexpectedly, which I thought was a great ZFS weakness - <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg09919.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg0...</a>
Does this support newer zfs and zpool versions? (newer version = more features)<p>Here's a list of where other platforms are at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Comparisons" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Comparisons</a>