ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard

[Jorge]

Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS the file system in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. (Digg and comment this)

More... (http://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/06/zfs-to-become-default-file-system-in-leopard/)

[JpY]

What would be the advantages of this filesystem? other than being able to have a maximum filesize of 16 Exbibytes (...whatever one of those is, sounds big. a gigbibyte is 2^30 an EiB is 2^60!).

[cheta]

wow that is huge! what kind of file could ever be that large, maybe they are just trying to prepare for the future and the next generation of multimedia on the computer. That is afterall what mac's are geared towards. There will probibly be no use for this filesystem for years to come

The point be hing the file system is "The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they will never be encountered in practice"

for more info visite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Capacity

[JpY]

"If 1,000 files were created every second, it would take about 9,000 years to reach the limit of the number of files."

I don't know how that compares to other file systems but thats insane!!