Can FreeBSD benefit from MacOS X ZFS?

Wes Morgan morganw at chemikals.org
Wed Jan 16 15:45:12 PST 2008


On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Wes Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org> writes:
>> As the subject says... Can FreeBSD benefit from the macos port of zfs?
>> I know this is a VERY new announcement, but not knowing much about
>> macos x in general I'm wondering how much it might help our tree, with
>> respect to both the memory and 32-bit issues. Just throwing it out
>> there for discussion, if anyone has any knowledge of both.
>
> Did you miss the part where Apple no longer sell 32-bit computers?

Possibly! I looked briefly but didn't see anything explicitly saying that 
later versions of OS X were 64-bit only. But, that's only half of the 
question. There are still memory issues on amd64.


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