Quick Tips on ZFS

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 [...]

Posted on May 8, 2009 at 10:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

Posted on September 25, 2008 at 6:00 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 System”. 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 [...]

Posted on November 6, 2007 at 12:22 pm by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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ZFS for OS X?

http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/

Posted on February 15, 2007 at 6:19 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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