[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Aug 8 02:56:26 CDT 2006


On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:44:10AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> We can only hope that the engine behind "Time Machine" or whatever is
> ZFS-based.

Unfortunately, it's not.

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2006-August/004237.html

"Looks like Time Machine is implemented using HFS+:
"To make Time Machine work, Mac users will need to use a separate HFS+
compatible non-bootable hard drive, Croll said."
http://news.com.com/New+Apple+feature+sends+users+back+in+time/2100-1046_3-6103007.html?tag=nefd.top
As Eric said earlier, it's a standard backup, incremental after the first
one, a versioning system of some sort."

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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