Sunday, August 20, 2006

Proof that OS X Leopard will use ZFS? - Time Machine Revealed?


Also cross posted to my O'Reilly Blog at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/
2006/08/proof_that_os_x_leopard_will_u.html


Over on SUN's ZFS web site, you'll find an interesting little article about ZFS snapshots.... (notice the screenshots) ;-)

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf/20060523

I think you'll find it similiar enough to confirm that OS X Leopard will have ZFS as it's main file system. All I can say is "Awesome" Read more about ZFS to see why I'm so excited about OS X having the most advanced file system ever.

Since I took so long to write this several people beat me to the punch on posting. (I started it on 8-8-2006 and got sidetracked with some work things and didn't post it) The following is my favorite although I don't agree with the consclusions he comes too.:

http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2006/8/15/4995

And here are some more...
More about ZFS available at these links:
http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ahrens?catname=%2FZFS

Screencasts of ZFS in action available from this page:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/

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