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Apple, Sun, Vista, and ZFS

A few days back, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz made an announcement about Sun’s next-gen file system (ZFS) being one of the key features of Apple OSX Leopard. Today, Apple rejected that sound bite, claiming HFS+ (from 1998) is still the order of the day.

First point: this reminds me a lot of Windows Vista and the whole WinFS debacle. Its amazing how much trouble filesystems seem to give OS manufacturers.

Second point: How does one have so severe a disconnect between major companies that embarrassing PR situations like this take place?

I’m not much of a geek, but one thing that does get me excited is file systems. Speed, searchability, security, reliability - all of these are tied to your FS, and ZFS seems to offer great advantages for each. So - I wish Apple or MS would get to it already.

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