On Dec 26, 2011, at 12:43 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > Not only the NetApp complaint. It was the general idea of indemnification in > case other complaints come forwards. NetApp was part of it, of course. (And > by then, maybe Apple was going other directions).
MeeGo is a mobile linux operating system, and has used btrfs as a default file-system since 2010. From the MeeGo and btrfs devel lists, it's clear the file system design specifically takes flash storage and optimization into account. One file system for both desktop and flash storage makes sense. Designing and testing a new file system from scratch takes a lot of effort and time. That Apple was willing to go with ZFS rather than an in-house solution may translate into their willingness to look elsewhere for a solution. As for EFI - UEFI, rather than Apple going with UEFI, and potentially making it easier to run Mac OS on non-Apple hardware, I'd sooner see Apple buy a VM company, include it with the OS, and that becomes the next Boot Camp, and dual boot actually goes away. VT-x is in all of the Intel CPUs Apple has been using for years, and paravirtualization has been employed on mobile platforms and embedded systems for a few years, so Apple can leverage this as part of greater runtime efficiency and security enhancement. There is already a reference UEFI implementation that can be placed within the VM, so operating systems requiring UEFI 2.x can get it, while Apple stays with Intel EFI 1.10 which no one else is likely to ever support (even Intel dropped it back in 2005). Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
