ZFS update

[Tom Metro]

A recent episode of the "FLOSS Weekly" podcast (hosted by Randal 
Schwartz) interviewed a couple of Sun employees responsible for their 
ZFS file system:

http://twit.tv/floss58

A few features I hadn't heard mentioned before include compression, 
encryption, remote replication, and the use of solid state drives as a 
sort of extended write cache to speed up write operations.

They also mentioned a rumor that ZFS might be included in the next OS X 
release.

They also mentioned Nexenta Systems (http://www.nexenta.com/) which 
sells both appliances and software to create enterprise scale NAS filers 
using ZFS.

Oddly I don't think they mentioned FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/), 
which now comes with ZFS. Anyone tried it out?

  -Tom

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