MacRumours are saying that a R/W ZFS preview has been made available to Apple ADC members to test. As an ADC member myself I can’t comment. But, ZFS is a fantastic, modern OS and would enhance MacOS in many different ways and would be easily extensible by 3rd parties. I am hoping someone brave will do a port of ZFS to Windows, although I fully realise that it could be a support nightmare for Microsoft and probably not advisable for the OS partition unless a major (like SUN) does the port and supports it. I live in hope ….
October 4, 2007
June 12, 2007
ZFS for Windows
Is not here yet … sorry if you thought I was announcing it, or had written a driver in my spare time. I’m just as annoyed as the next geek that SUN’s brilliant filesystem is not available under Windows for use at home. or is it ….
I was pondering whether I could build a Solaris 10 based home server with a ZFS pool. Well of course I could, I really meant should. Microsoft WHS is quite well packaged and NTFS does have some elements of ZFS (or at least those that I need sans 128 bit addressing) so is it worth the bother? I’m still pondering, but I do like the extreme geek factor involved of a stripped out ZFS only Solaris home server.
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