[Swordmaker]

Sun annouces that Mac OSX.5 Leopard will be sporting a new 128 bit file system... ZFS... which can store 18 billion billion (18.4 × 10¹⁸) times more data than current 64-bit systems. PING!

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[IslandJeff]

Um, how much hardware is this thing going to require?

Exhibit A: Win Vista

[Covenantor]

Am I correct in surmising that this can have a very large impact the server market? Very large ?

[George W. Bush]

These tidbits don't do justice to ZFS. The snapshotting (Time Machine), the ability to add drives to a system pool and expand its size (need another 500GB, just plug in a drive and issue a command), its Z-RAID (use two or more drives in parallel), its write-once nature, how it stores file checksums in the directory structure one directory higher than the file itself.

And how it actually can reconstruct files on failed drives or when you've had bit-rot (a problem with new large drives where data just changes for no good reason) is just flat-out amazing.

It's a dream of a filesystem. And big enough to last even the largest users for another 20 years.

[theFIRMbss]

>Mac OSX.5 Leopard will be sporting a new 128 bit file system... ZFS... which can store 18 billion billion (18.4 × 1018) times more data than current 64-bit systems

So, since the iPhone
runs the MacOS, I can
store the phone numbers

of every woman
on the planet in my phone...
I will need speed dial!