Having used ZFS on my servers for a few years, it's a bit disappointing that it's not available on my Mac OS X desktop.
Not necessarily because it's ZFS, which is no longer state of the art. But because I've come to consider strong cryptographic checksums, free snapshots and trivial administration of storage as a bare minimum of what's required in a filesystem.
While ZFS may not be completely suitable for a consumer desktop, it is available now. Plus with the hierarchical storage features, imagine how wonderful it would be to have your multi-TB disc accelerated by a few GB of flash on the motherboard.
It's taken ZFS a long time to get where it is in terms of features and stability. It may be over five years before Apple can produce something tried and tested enough to be their new default filesystem.
Not necessarily because it's ZFS, which is no longer state of the art. But because I've come to consider strong cryptographic checksums, free snapshots and trivial administration of storage as a bare minimum of what's required in a filesystem.
While ZFS may not be completely suitable for a consumer desktop, it is available now. Plus with the hierarchical storage features, imagine how wonderful it would be to have your multi-TB disc accelerated by a few GB of flash on the motherboard.
It's taken ZFS a long time to get where it is in terms of features and stability. It may be over five years before Apple can produce something tried and tested enough to be their new default filesystem.