Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX

Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX 384

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 07, 2007 @11:41AM from the so-happy-together dept.

Fjan11 writes "Sun's Jonathan Schwartz has announced that Apple will be making ZFS 'the file system' in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. It's possible that Leopard's Time Machine feature will require ZFS to run, because ZFS has back-up and snapshots build right in to the filesystem as well as a host of other features. 'Rumors of Apple's interest in ZFS began in April 2006, when an OpenSolaris mailing list revealed that Apple had contacted Sun regarding porting ZFS to OS 10. The file system later began making appearances in Leopard builds. ZFS has a long list of improvements over Apple's current file system, Journaled HFS+.'"

Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX

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The were going to use Reiser (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @11:43AM (#19424335)

But they killed that project.

As Homer would say... (Score:3, Funny)

by dsginter ( 104154 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @11:44AM (#19424347)

Mmmm... Boiled Oceans!

It WAS... (Score:5, Funny)

by WiseWeasel ( 92224 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @11:48AM (#19424405)

Not anymore, it ain't... Now, Apple will go with NTFS just to spite them...

Re:The were going to use Reiser (Score:2, Funny)

by aled ( 228417 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @11:57AM (#19424567)

But they killed that project.

This is Slashdot. We do not say "they killed the project". We say "but BSD/OpenSolaris/ZFS/etc is dead".

Re:The were going to use Reiser (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:11PM (#19424801)

You know, having a project like that canceled is very stressful for developers. It must have been murder on their families, too.

Oh God. I can't sign my name to that.

Harsh reply! (Score:3, Funny)

by grandmofftarkin ( 49366 ) * writes: <3b16-ihd3@xemaps.com> on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:14PM (#19424887)

There is no need to 'stick the knife' in! ;-)

Re:It WAS... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:31PM (#19425149)

Naw, Apple's really going to spite MS by implementing and using WinFS.

Re:oblig... (Score:3, Funny)

by evil_Tak ( 964978 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:39PM (#19425265)

Apparently you've never used ReiserFS.

Re:oblig... (Score:5, Funny)

by mapinguari ( 110030 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:43PM (#19425337)

You misunderstood him. He said that it would bring about "War and Peace", not world peace.
Every ZFS volume has a copy of the Tolstoy classic embedded for internal benchmark purposes.

Re:The were going to use Reiser (Score:5, Funny)

by SuiteSisterMary ( 123932 ) writes: <slebrunNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:43PM (#19425353) Journal

Am I missing any other notorious Slashdot cliche?

I don't use Slashdot cliches, you insensitive clod!

Re:oblig... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:45PM (#19425383)

He wrote 'data loss', not 'wife loss'.

Re:It WAS... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @12:50PM (#19425449)

Maybe they should use WinFS, so that MS has somewhere to steal it from

Re:He's already backpeddled (Score:5, Funny)

by gclef ( 96311 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @01:14PM (#19425805)

Translation:

"I didn't know that Steve Jobs was going to call me and scream at me like a diseased monkey when I said that. I'm sorry Steve. Please don't kill me."

Re:oblig... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @01:30PM (#19426019)

I married Brent Spiner, you insensitive clod.

Re:The were going to use Reiser (Score:3, Funny)

by Fex303 ( 557896 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @02:50PM (#19427307)

Netcraft confirms it!

I'm getting this engraved on my tombstone...

Re:oblig... (Score:2, Funny)

by Angus McNitt ( 542101 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @02:55PM (#19427383)

Shh, that is an inside secret. They were originally going to use The Brothers Karamazov, but the developers couldn't agree on a pronunciation.

Re:The were going to use Reiser (Score:3, Funny)

by innerweb ( 721995 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @03:21PM (#19427797)

Normally a License, but under a full moon, it mutates and attacks projects that are not corrupted.

Re:I'm giving odds... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @05:08PM (#19429563)

Shit, you're absolutely correct. Since it's a beta surely nothing will change until it goes gold. Thanks for point that out to all of us.......

Re:oblig... (Score:5, Funny)

by adisakp ( 705706 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @06:05PM (#19430327) Journal

Nope. ZFS WAS going to be the file system until Sun's CEO leaked it before Jobs could announce it. No one knows what it will actually be NOW. Jobs would rather use FAT32 than let someone leak info about one of his announcements.

Re:oblig... (Score:4, Funny)

by Tribbin ( 565963 ) writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @08:22PM (#19431853) Homepage

That was user error.

Re:oblig... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 07, 2007 @09:36PM (#19432477)

>Which I find really deplurable
Does that mean you find it singular?

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