Snow Leopard: ZFS to be included!

[Denis Pagé]

ZFS? -> Zee File System? ... or the new FAT

Not a sexy subject but impressive numbers nonetheless. Leopard actually support ZFS but read only. Snow will support both read/write!

So, what? Look at the numbers:

• 2^48: Number of possible images (system snapshots)
• 2^48: Number of files in each file system (disk)
• 16 hexa-bytes: Maximum size of file system (16 Hexa-Bytes disks? Anytime soon?)
• 16 hexa-bytes: Maximum file size (Talk about bloated files!)
• 2^56: Maximum theorical number of files per folder (2^48 because of above)

To help you get a human scale idea: One creating 1''' files per second 24/7 would take over 9' centuries to reach the limit!!! :shock:

Add over that better protection against file corruption, power failures and RAID problems.

Get ready for that 33 Gigapixels 12' fps camera...

 

[Ian Farlow]

Where did you get this information? This would be very nice if true...

 

[Denis Pagé]

Where did you get this information? This would be very nice if true...

Isn't you who asked for it when going more nuts? :roll:

The info is coming from a knoledgeable techno-journalist from Radio-Canada who is also a Mac enthousiast. I like very much his chronicles on saturday radio... He published this information in french HERE.

 

[Ian Farlow]

Thanks for the link.