ZFS For Your Mac

What is zfs you might ask? It’s a new filesystem that was developed by Sun for the Open Solaris OS. Why should you be excited about it on a Mac? Let’s take a step back first. A while ago there was a rumour that ZFS was going to be included in Leopard. While the CEO of Sun told people that it was true, it turned out to be just that, a rumour.

So here it is (an unstable version as of yet); the ZFS project. ZFS is a superior file system; it provides simple administration (think no more fsck), transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and some serious scalability, and it’s here for your Mac. We strongly remind you that it’s still in its testing stages, so keep it off any machine with critical data, but if, no when ZFS for the Mac matures it will be a great benefit for any user.

[Via Download Squad]

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