Next generation file system for Mac OS from Sun
Jonathan Schwartz recently revealed that his company, Sun, was working on a new file system – ZFS. They made it open source and he said that ZFS will be integrated into Mac OS.
Not only it is made for Mac OS but it’s available for Linux, BSDs, Solaris.
Here’s the extract from their website:
“We’ve rethought everything and rearchitected it,” says Jeff Bonwick, Sun distinguished engineer and chief architect of ZFS. “We’ve thrown away 20 years of old technology that was based on assumptions no longer true today.”
ZFS is supported on both SPARC and x86 platforms. More important, ZFS is endian-neutral. You can easily move disks from a SPARC server to an x86 server. Neither architecture pays a byte-swapping tax due to Sun’s patent-pending “adaptive endian-ness” technology, which is unique to ZFS. And you don’t have to worry about migration. Sun continues to support the UFS file system.
Sun introduced new server Sun Fire X4500,Project Thumper which will be making use of ZFS for their data storage needs.
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