[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.

[zeugma]

These tidbits don't do justice to ZFS.

Indeed. ZFS is absolutely going to rock as a filesystem. I can't wait for it to make headroads into Linux space.

Too bad MS so ruled by the NIH syndrome that they won't support more than just FAT/FAT32/NTFS.