Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X

Re:Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X by bonzoesc on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:25PM (#2342036)

One of the big reasons for Time Machine is to make it harder for Mac owners to lose data, either through hard drives failing, or user error. Backing up to the same drive only protects against user error. Instead of displaying a checklist of things you're protected against, Time Machine is an all-or-nothing deal, which makes the interface a lot simpler.

It also enables retail locations extra options to make users happier quicker: if a customer comes in pissed with a logic board problem that's the "third strike" for that computer, the support staff can simply ask if the customer has Time Machine backups, and send the customer away with a new-in-box computer without having to worry about moving drives around and migrating files in-store.

Apple's vertical enough that keeping Time Machine simple saves them employee hours around the world every day.

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Re:Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X by ugh on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:43PM (#2342108)

Lion actually makes local snapshots by default but the option to turn this on and off is quite hidden and even with local snapshots enabled the huge on/off switch for Time Machine in the preferences shows that Time Machine is turned off. All other Time Machine behavior is unchanged. This is, I think, quite a clever solution to the problems you were mentioning.

(This might still change before they release Lion, though.)

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