I doubt we’ll hear much about it until Apple includes it in a release of OS X Server.
UPDATING OPENZFS ON OS X UPDATE
Update II: No mention of ZFS in Steve’s keynote or on the Apple website. ZFS goes a long way towards meeting both requirements. And flash drives need a compatible file system. Journaled file systems are better than not, but as the consumer-driven IT market booms customers need better data protection and recovery tools. The real importance of ZFS on Mac is that it raises the bar for the entire industry. I’m planning to have something out next week. spl.kext is a dependency of zfs.kext, so start with this repository. This is spl.kext, the Solaris Portability Layer (SPL). Can you say “weird”? My take now is that flash drives are to disk drives what quantum mechanics is to Newtonian physics. OpenZFS on OS X (O3X) brings OpenZFS features to Apples OS X. managed to write all this stuff in very little code. In fact, it just occurs to me that it could be on the iPhone.
UPDATING OPENZFS ON OS X MAC OS
Unlike today’s Mac OS and Windows, ZFS bunches writes – kind of like NetApp’s WAFL – which is just what flash drives need since their random write performance is even worse than I’d realized. I finally put two and two together and figured this out: ZFS will be great for flash disks.
Well, cough, cough, it looks like August 2006 is finally arriving next week. Let’s hope Apple says more at their World Wide Developer Conference in August.
NTFS and Apple’s HFS+ are no match for it. While not offering a relational database and the promise of a single cross-application data store, ZFS is a modern file/storage management system whose end-to-end data integrity and protection makes it a strong foundation for future innovation. V cool.Īs I noted in Bring Me the Head of WinFS:Īpple now has a clear path to trump Vista’s aging data management with a port of ZFS. I’ll stick to my prediction that Apple, as with HFS+, will put ZFS on OS X Server first before bringing it out later for the great unwashed.įor one thing it will fix a persistent problem Xserve RAID admins have: pulling out the wrong drive, or scrambling drives, and losing lots of bits. Jonathan is wrong, of course, but it was sweet of him to say itįolks tell me that if ZFS is in Leopard it is pretty well hidden. In fact, this week you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10. Thanks to alert reader Petieg, I’ve learned that according to Mac Rumors Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said today that
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