ZFS is coming to the Mac, according to the Apple website. But it isn’t here yet. In the meantime, you can learn a lot about some upcoming technology without ever downloading a single trial copy of Mac OS X by using the hobbled ZFS implementation on Leopard or a full version hosted on OpenSolaris, or another OS that has full ZFS support. ZFS on most *nix systems follows the same command line structures for the most part. For example, running the following command will show you each of your ZFS mount points and if you can’t actually write to any volumes (as is the case with 10.5.x), the OS will…
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Making the case for Solaris
I recently read an article that Solaris is a dead OS (or will be rather shortly). I beg to differ, proveded the hardware support is there. Solaris can still multithread better than anyone. Solaris’ ZFS is still the most superior file system available (although before the ReiserFS founder got put in prison for wasting his wife it looked poised for greatness) and the Sun hardware is still best of breed. Sun as a company is also going to be building tighter integration into MySQL, which should help boost numbers. But the pony-tail-laden chief of Sun definitely has his work cut out for him. There are certain acquisitions that have…
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Mac OS X Leopard: What About that ZFS Thingie?
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal ZFS was released by a team at Sun in November of 2004. The name stands for “Zettabyte File Systemâ€. ZFS is a 128-bit file system, so it can store 18 billion billion (18.4 × 1018) times more data than current 64-bit systems. We’re not going to sit here and do the math for that but you are more than welcome to figure out what the theoretical size is at that point – all we can say is that it’s friggin’ huge. Traditional file systems reside on single devices and require a volume manager to use more than one device to generate a logical or…
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ZFS for OS X?
http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/