[Tig] ZFS for DI?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Simon Burley wrote:
>
> We're not in a position here to compare filesystems under OS X Leopard
> (is anyone?)

Everyone I know who has experienced Leopard has done so under NDA.

The regular OS X filesystem is extremely fast to create (similar to 
ZFS) and is pretty fast to write large files to.  It is not very 
Unix-like.  For example, testing shows that the OS X filesystem does 
not support sparse files very well.  It preallocates disk space for 
blocks which are not actually used.

I tend to suspect that the OS X filesystem is fragile and trades 
robustness for speed.  The optional BSD filesystem is more robust but 
runs in user space so it is slower.

Bob
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