Thursday, June 7, 2007

Apple will use ZFS in Leopard

Apple keeps on the way of innovation. I just read that they will use ZFS as primary files ystem in the next version of OsX. This is an interesting news because ZFS is a very interesting file system.

Unfortunately free software community won't have any support to ZFS because of the license incompatibility between GPL and CDDL. PIty, it has nice features.

One of the most interesting one is the native support to snapshots. This helps creating wonderful backup strategies as those implemented in project such Time Machine.

I hope that ext4 will integrate the work made in ext3cow project.

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