AppleInsider, among others, are reporting that Apple’s next version of OS X 10.5 Leopard will use the Sun developed ZFS file system.It may have been a premeditated outburst or a sudden slip-of-the-lip, but either way Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is claiming that Apple next week will announce a plan to replace the default Mac OS X file system with the Sun-developed ZFS.If this is true it’s great news…. It’s a high capacity modern file system that is built on top of virtual storage pools. This would give Apple OS X an extremely capable file systems that would bode well for future development and would replace HFS+ as the default file system.
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