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New filesystem system in Leopard

By S Simmons. Filed in Editing  |  
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AppleInsider | Apple to adopt ZFS as default file system for Leopard


I first read the above article I thought that I guess this is a good idea. But then I clicked over and read a more detailed explanation on this new file system. It’s pretty techie and I certainly didn’t understand a lot of it but I think most people who know enough about their Macs to maintain their own edit system will get a lot of it. I don’t know if this new filesystem will be recommended from day 1 for media drives but from what it sounds like then it might be a good thing.

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4 comments to “New filesystem system in Leopard”

  1. Comment by DKG:
    Thursday, June 7th 2007 at 5:03 pm

    This is a really good explanation of ZFS from Ars Technica.

  2. Comment by DKG:
    Thursday, June 7th 2007 at 5:04 pm

    http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2006/08/15/4995

  3. Comment by Ryan G:
    Thursday, June 7th 2007 at 8:39 pm

    I think the simplest and most useful feature for editors is this:

    “have a bunch of external drives? You can now pool them together. Want to add a new drive or swap out an old one with a new, non-broken or higher capacity one? It’s about as easy as dumping a bucket of water in said pool. Doesn’t matter if it’s a USB, Firewire, eSATA, Fibre Channel, or iSCSI drive, you can mix and match anything.”

  4. Comment by Makea:
    Friday, June 8th 2007 at 12:28 pm

    Make sure you have enough ram!

    I created a zfs pool using six 146 scsi drives in a multi-pack on a Sun Ultra 20 with 512mb of ram using the latest version of Solaris 10 a few months back. It wasn’t enough, as the system crashed. Increasing the ram to 1gb gave me no problems.

    The cool thing about zfs is that it’s a filesystem with volume management built right in. Just make sure your box can handle the overhead!

    I really hope apple’s implementation supports zfs boot drives. The current Solaris Express builds support it, but it’s not recommended for real use.