Can FreeBSD benefit from MacOS X ZFS?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Wes Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > 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.

Later versions of OS X support both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel and PowerPC
machines, but they're starting to set lower bounds on what it will run
on - it won't install on my 2003 model G4 eMac, for instance.  I expect
that by the time OS X gets write support for ZFS, PowerPC will be
history.  I also suspect that Apple see ZFS as a mostly server-side
feature, which reduces the importance of 32-bit machines even further.

(Going off on a tangent, I was very amused by the self-styled pundits'
amazement at the Intel Mac announcement.  "Gee, we never saw that one
coming!"  I mean, Darwin had only had i386 and "fat binary" support for
five years at that point.)

DES
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