Mac users should watch ZFS development closely
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 8, 2008 at 12:47pm
By J. Scott Anderson
Samsung and Microsoft are in talks to to speed up SSDs (solid state drives) on Windows Vista, reports Information Week.
While Samsung is now in talks with Microsoft to improve performance of SSD’s on Windows Vista, the article reports that Sun has already been working with Sun on improving performance of SSD’s with the ZFS (Zettabyte File System). That means that any improvements that Sun includes in ZFS will automatically be included in the upcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard update.
But because Sun’s efforts are server focused, there is a question, in my mind, about whether or not the improvements will be available for the server and client versions or just the server version. Either way, it seems that it would be a good idea to watch ZFS development rather closely.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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