Mac OS X: ZFS
The latest OS X builds have ZFS support. This is brilliant stuff, but there are a few questions that I have about this:
- Why isn’t ZFS the default FS? HSFS sucks monkey balls.
- Can it do ZFS root?
- Will they be introducing a good GUI in 10.6?
- How about a decent kernel in 10.7?
It’d also be interesting to see how Apple go about handling failed writes… a panic makes sense in the enterprise, but is it right for the desktop?
To be honest… the way things are going, you have to wonder why Apple don’t make the sensible decision to bolt their proprietary GUI crap on top of a solid, proven system. A system that introduced the world to DTrace and ZFS… Solaris.
December 20th, 2006 at 8:54 am
By a good UI do you mean something like Time Machine? http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html
That page really needs quicktime but there are descriptions of it out there. Basically it’s a nice spanshot management interface.
December 20th, 2006 at 9:04 am
We’re not quite sure that Time Machine is based on ZFS just yet. I don’t think it is. Instead, it looks like it is some userland stuff that just doesn’t do what you tell it :)