Unlike a traditional file system, which resides on a single device and thus requires a volume manager to use more than one device, ZFS is built on top of virtual storage pools called zpools. A pool is ...

I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple’s launch of its DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple completed all but the fiddliest finishing touches without help ...

Fantastic news for nerds who keep up with file systems. Sun’s just accidentally spilled the beans that OS 10.5, aka OS X Leopard, is going to be using ZFS as its default file system. ZFS replaces ...

Apple Inc. collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s part of the company’s culture. So when someone breaks the code of silence, it sets virtual seismographic needles scratching.

Yesterday’s Jobsnote certainly lacked plenty of announcements that we wanted to hear, but notably absent—to my ears, anyway—were a couple of things that I very much expected to hear, especially in a ...

So while ZFS has attractive features, you'd still be better of with a FAT32 file system and good backups then a complex RAID system with ZFS and no backups. The only major exception to ...

Sun Microsystems president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at a company event, said that Sun’s ZFS file system will be “the” file system for Apple’s upcoming Leopard version of Mac OS X. This has ...

Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple ...

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Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Apple collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s ...

Sun spilled the beans about ZFS and Apple's upcoming OS X update, but what is ZFS, and how integral is it to Leopard? Apple collects secrets like a pack rat collects shiny things. It’s part of the ...