Category: OS

• 12 June 2007

  Will ZFS be in Leopard?

  So yesterdays WWDC’s keynote wasn’t exactly heavy on technical detail. And there isn’t anything on the Apple site. But there are some indications that Leopard OS X will support the ZFS file system. Consider the following quotes from Apple’s description of Time Machine: … what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that…
• 28 January 2007

  The Zettabyte File System (ZFS) is coming to Mac OS X – what is it?

  Since Mac OS 8.1 (nine years ago) Apple OS has run on the HFS+ filesystem (which in turn is based on the 22 year old HFS), but maybe soon we will see a major upgrade with the introduction of the Zettabyte File System (ZFS). ZFS is very powerful for a number of reasons – and…
• 13 January 2007

  Are we seeing the beginning of the end for the counter intuitive two-copy filesystem?

  As Alan Cooper points out: Disks are a hack, not a design feature (About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design); they are a hack because we can’t afford the desired solution: computers with 80 GB of non-volatile main memory. So instead of our desired solution we are stuck with hard drives and filesystems. However,…