Heh, good point :) However, ZFS is only available on Leopard, since it requires some changes and symbols that are only part of the Leopard kernel. On the plus side ZFS and Dtrace are really freakin cool so maybe that will help mitigate the ouch factor on the upgrade; just think of all the glorious hours of engineering you're getting for one upgrade :)
Noel On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Noël Dellofano wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> This is just a quick announcement to say that the ZFS on OS X port >> is now posted for your viewing fun at: >> http://zfs.macosforge.org/ >> The page is also linked off of the ZFS Open Solaris page under >> "ZFS Ports": >> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/ >> This page holds the status for the ZFS on OSX port and includes a >> small FAQ, some known bugs, announcements, and will include more >> as time goes on. It also holds the latest source code and >> binaries that you can download to your hearts content. So if you >> have a Mac, are running Leopard, and are feeling bleeding edge >> please try it out. > > Does it need Leopard or can it work on Tiger ? Just curious as ZFS > and DTrace are the only things in Leopard that are of interest to me > and I just can't bring myself to pay (again) to upgrade MacOS X for > two features that were developed for Solaris and are open source :-) > > Thanks. > > -- > Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
