ZFS Option On OS X?
I have been working so much lately that I haven’t had much time to read random news for fun, but I took a break tonight and read some. It appears that Apple is dipping its toe into ZFS. Man, if apple stuck the option to use ZFS in OS X I would be pretty awe struck. Forget the iPhone (what 10 days away now?) this is what I’m talking about. I can’t tell you how a silly gadget will change your life, but I can tell you how this would. Mmmm… atomic write operations. Hierarchical checksumming. In place cloning. I haven’t been this excited about a technology for a long time.
I think the reason I love it so much is that it doesn’t require newer hard drives. Use the same old ones, just use them better. That’s the future for you. It’s like figuring out how to build concrete using everyday materials in an environmentally friendly way. Oh wait, that was last week.