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Re:Apple can do better than ZFS by blasdel on Sunday October 25, 2009 @06:26AM (#901467)
It would be intensely difficult technically for Apple to port XFS (perhaps not as bad as the rewrite to make it actually use Linux's VFS instead of implementing its own). It's also GPL — never going to happen for that reason alone.

As a longtime XFS user, I can tell you that it has pathological problems when used anywhere near a user's desktop: unlinking is abysmally slow (and even worse under rm -R). It also has a habit of delaying flush for way too long, both using up piles of kernel memory and making itself extremely vulnerable to power loss.

Re:Apple can do better than ZFS by rbanffy on Sunday October 25, 2009 @04:58PM (#902131)
"It's also GPL — never going to happen for that reason alone"

If SGI has the copyright, they can still relicense it for use under OSX. I don't think Rackable would block this idea.

Re:Apple can do better than ZFS by blasdel on Monday October 26, 2009 @03:34AM (#902778)
SGI has the full copyright to the version they initially released, but modern XFS has spent 8 years getting integrated into Linux by many independent contributors.
Re:Apple can do better than ZFS by gaius on Sunday October 25, 2009 @04:07PM (#902062)
Ah yes, I'd forgotten it was GPL. Back to the 'ol drawing board...

I've an Octane at home, which is my main machine except in the summer when it makes my flat too warm :-)