ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystem, featuring data integrity, support for high storage capacities, integration of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking, automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs.

Apple has posted a notice on its ZFS open-source project page indicating that the project has been terminated. ZFS is an advanced file system developed by Sun that had been ported to Mac OS X and released in 2007 as an open-source project on Apple’s Mac OS Forge collaboration site. ZFS had been rumored to become the default file system for Mac OS X Leopard, but ended up appearing with only limited read-only capabilities.

You might have heard of ZFS; power users and geeky types have been going crazy over the rumors of its presence in Leopard. So what exactly does the Zettabyte File System do? In short, it’s a file system, a way of organizing the files residing on your hard drive. Mac OS X Tiger currently uses more »

We’ve got some juicy Leopard secrets to share. It turns out that Sun Microsystem’s CEO and President, Jonathan Schwartz, announced at a conference held earlier today that Apple is making ZFS the default file system in Leopard. In Schwartz’s own words: “…you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has more »