From: "Robert Comer" 

> Duhh, that's a plus, my friend.

Not to my wallet it's not!  I foresee myself buying a Mac eventually, maybe
soon, but the Intel Mac's have to get a bit cheaper for a decent config...

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Bob Comer





"RobertB"  wrote in message
news:missinglink-04E398.10490920122006{at}news.barkto.com...
> In article ,
> "Robert Comer"  wrote:
>
>> > So what's not to like? 
>>
>> You need Apple Hardware!
>
> Duhh, that's a plus, my friend.
>
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "RobertB"  wrote in message
>> news:missinglink-24F3A8.13221319122006{at}news.barkto.com...
>> > In article ,
>> > mike  wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:04:02 -0500, RobertB

>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >In article ,
>> >> > mike  wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:25:04 -0500, RobertB
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >In article
,
>> >> >> > mike  wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >>
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmac4ever.com%2
Fn
>> >> >> >> ews
>> >> >> >> %2F
>> >> >> >> 274
>> >> >> >>
85%2Fzettabyte_sur_leopard%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT
F-
>> >> >> >> 8&p
>> >> >> >> rev
>> >> >> >> =%2
>> >> >> >> Flanguage_tools
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> ===
>> >> >> >> Parmis the few innovations of Leopard,
one read these last
>> >> >> >> months,
>> >> >> >> several rumours on the integration of a
new filing system, the
>> >> >> >> ZFS,
>> >> >> >> which presents a revolution in the
field of the storage of data.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> This rumour seems to be confirmed,
since one sees finally
>> >> >> >> apparaitre in
>> >> >> >> the utility of discs of Leopard, an
option to create images and
>> >> >> >> partitions in this format. On the other
hand, it is not known
>> >> >> >> yet
>> >> >> >> if it
>> >> >> >> will be right another supported system,
or if it has the role to
>> >> >> >> replace
>> >> >> >> the HFS+ for the disc system.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> ZFS amongst other things integrates
functionalities of advanced
>> >> >> >> safeguards which could be used very
well by Apple for Time
>> >> >> >> Machine
>> >> >> >> for
>> >> >> >> example. This known as, it is a
sympathetic innovation, but that
>> >> >> >> still
>> >> >> >> does not say to us what Steve wanted to
hold secret signal.
>> >> >> >> ===
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>  /m
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >What's the source, so I can read it in the original?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> At the top of the google translated page is the
link to the
>> >> >> original.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>  /m
>> >> >
>> >> >OK. I found it. What's Zettabyte File System anyway?
>> >>
>> >> Some more info:
>> >>
>> >>
http://loop.worldofapple.com/archives/2006/12/17/zfs-file-system-makes-it
-t
>> >> o-m
>> >> ac-os-x-leopard/
>> >>
>> >> ===
>> >> Back in May of this year it was rumoured that Apple's File System
>> >> Development Team had contacted Sun Microsystems to help in a
>> >> translation
>> >> of the Zettabyte File System to Mac OS X.
>> >> Zettabyte File System makes appearance in Mac OS X 10.5,
Disk Utility
>> >>
>> >> With the most recent Build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, ZFS
has appeared
>> >> to
>> >> have finally made an appearance, as per the rumours.
>> >>
>> >> Sun Microsystems describes ZFS as the "last word in
File Systems," the
>> >> file system is well known for being incredibly resilient to data
>> >> failure, having immense capacity and being the first 128-bit file
>> >> system.
>> >>
>> >> Lets look at ZFS's ability to keep data safe, everything on ZFS is
>> >> "copy-on-write" meaning that the file system
never overwrites live
>> >> data
>> >> and it leaves no windows of vulnerability. Also on ZFS,
everything is
>> >> transactional meaning that a file copy will either
completely fail or
>> >> be
>> >> a complete success not half and half leaving you with a
mess to clean
>> >> up.
>> >>
>> >> Finally the most important feature of data integrity os
check summing
>> >> and everything on ZFS is checksummed meaning zero data corruption.
>> >>
>> >> The Zettabyte File system is also incredibly scalable
adding value to
>> >> users of both server and home environments. ZFS has a data storage
>> >> capacity of 256 quadrillion zettabytes and a maximum file
size of 16
>> >> exabytes (that's 17179869184 terabytes).
>> >>
>> >> Overall ZFS offers the following key advantages:-
>> >>
>> >> Pooled storage - No requirement for a volume manager when extra
>> >> volumes
>> >> added, the volume is simply added to a pool creating a
vdev (virtual
>> >> device), a collection of vdevs makes up a zpool, which in
essence is
>> >> the
>> >> storage available to the file system.
>> >>
>> >> Snapshots - Read-only point in time of the file system
>> >>
>> >> Clones - write-able copy of a snapshot
>> >>
>> >> RAID-Z - Makes use of copy-on-write; rather than
overwriting old data
>> >> with new data, it writes new data to a new location and then
>> >> overwrites
>> >> the pointer to the old data
>> >>
>> >> Detects and then corrects data corruption
>> >>
>> >> Incredibly fast due to intelligent pre-fetching, and dynamic
>> >> striping....
>> >> ===
>> >
>> > So what's not to like? 

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