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I've posted before about ZFS, Sun's seemingly amazing open source file system. I have some fairly large (couple TB) ext3 partitions running on hardware RAID5 under linux, and while I've never had any issues <knocking on wood> I've always felt like there must be a better way. And if the ZFS hype is true then it sounds like that better way. Although I guess these things are always open to reevaluation upon inspection.
Still, I'm pretty skeptical these days, and ZFS really does sound great. And now the rumors are that Mac OS X 10.5 (probably announced in January, shipping in March/April) will have ZFS support. Interesting. It almost seems too advanced for the home user, except the whole zpools stuff really makes sense. And it's very Apple. Want more space? Just plug in another hard drive. No fussing with it, or choosing parameters; and it doesn't show up as a separate drive or anything complicated like that; you just get that much more storage added to your pool of storage. Kind of like how you might think it would work if you didn't know too much about how it actually works.
