ZFS Coming to OSX Leopard

It’s not too often that the developer of an operating system decides on a completely new filesystem, and when they do, it’s probably for a good reason. Information has been leaked inadvertantly by Sun, that Apple’s OS X Leopard will utilize the ZFS file system, effectively replacing journaled HFS+ as seen in current versions.

Rumors of Apple’s interest in ZFS began in April 2006, when an OpenSolaris mailing list revealed that Apple had contacted Sun regarding porting ZFS to OS 10. The file system later began making appearances in Leopard builds.

First released in 2005, ZFS is certainly one of the newer filesystems on the market, but if Apple is this confident in its efficiency, then it’s hard to think otherwise. It’s a filesystem of the future, able to handle upwards of 16 exabytes (16,000,000,000GB) thanks to it’s 128-bit design.

Source: Mac Rumors