> And Apple? I'd like to think that they'll reverse their decision to drop
> ZFS, but more likely they'll mandate HFS+ as the one true standard and
> simply respond to dissenters by banning them from iTunes.

It only feels natural now to quote Linus on this aspect: "OS X in some
ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system
is complete and utter crap, which is scary. I think OS X is nicer than
Windows in many ways, but neither can hold a candle to my own (Linux).
It’s a race to second place!"
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/q-and-a-with-linus-torvalds/2008/02/05/1202090403120.html?page=2

Of course, as with the choice of Obj-C, technical merit is but a
secondary concern to Apple. And that brings us back on topic again. :)

/Casper


> On 28 April 2010 14:18, opinali <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 28 abr, 04:45, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > (e.g. see Linux's pathetic advanced-
> > > > filesystem story, it's not yet in the place that Windows was >10 years
> > > > ago with NTFS.)
>
> > > Now you're being ridiculous. Let me guess, next you're going to claim
> > > that Microsoft's next-gen-NTFS (WinFS) was superior to state-of-the-
> > > art on Linux (BTRFS)? Of course the former had to be cancelled, while
> > > the latter is slated to become de-facto/default within a few years.
>
> > Both filesystems are vaporware until they are actually released and
> > widely deployed. Read my recent post - yeah Vista didn't get the
> > database-like filesystem that Microsoft has been promising since the
> > Cairo plans; what what you already have in Vista&Win7 is actually a
> > lot, remarkably atomic distributed transactions. I have tested the
> > WinFS beta when Vista was on beta, and it was a dog. Will probably
> > take another full rewrite or two - as usual in many Microsoft projects
> > - until they have something usable. They are clearly working on that;
> > Windows Server needs its own tech to compete with NetApp, ZFS and the
> > like - perhaps the relational stuff was just the wrong vision, so it's
> > difficult to tell what kind of advanced FS they will ship when they
> > finally do. Meanwhile, I think btrfs will ship first as Oracle is
> > behind it, not to mention that Oracle nows owns ZFS too and they can
> > join forces and deliver some wonderful filesystem tech, hopefully for
> > the benefit of the OSS community too.
>
> > A+
> > Osvaldo
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