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Re:The new MacBook by frik on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @03:38AM (#9176524)
Apple planned to replace its very old HFS(+) filesystem with ZFS, there were even dev beta releases and demonstration to the media. But OSX 10.5(?) didn't ship with ZFS. So OSX is stuck with an decades old filesystem almost as basic and bad as FAT32, where Windows has NTFS (and ReFS, ExFAT), Linux has Btrfs/XFS/extfs4 and *BSD/Solaris has ZFS.
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Re:The new MacBook by jsz0 on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @04:29AM (#9176627)
OSX has ZFS via OpenZFS.
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Re:The new MacBook by frik on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @01:16PM (#9178975)
But it's a big difference, if it's an optional driver or the default one. Currently, on OSX and iOS most users are simply using the default installation and are stuck with HDF+.

One can install optional filesystems on every OS. Like NTFS on Linux and OSX. ZFS on Linux, Ext4 on Windows.

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