A ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system
"Adam Leventhal: Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years. Media coverage to this point has been mostly breathless elongations of Apple's developer documentation. With a dearth of detail I decided to attend the presentation and Q&A with the APFS team at WWDC. Dominic Giampaolo and Eric Tamura, two members of the APFS team, gave an overview to a packed room; along with other members of the team, they patiently answered questions later in the day. With those data points and some first-hand usage I wanted to provide an overview and analysis both as a user of Apple-ecosystem products and as a long-time operating system and file system developer." -- source: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/a-zfs-developers-analysis-of-the-good-a... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:40:21 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"Adam Leventhal: Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years."
Bear in mind it’s still vapourware at this stage. I think it was Valerie Aurora who stated the rule: any new filesystem takes five years to reach production quality. Nobody is going to prematurely trust their precious data to this...
"Adam Leventhal: Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years."
Bear in mind it’s still vapourware at this stage. I think it was Valerie Aurora who stated the rule: any new filesystem takes five years to reach production quality.
Adam mentions 10 years in his article.
Nobody is going to prematurely trust their precious data to this...
Unless it is force fed, because you're an Apple user... ;-) Cheers, Peter
"Shaping a fast growing city requires people who think differently"... You may be interested, or know someone who may be interested, in the position of the Chief Information Officer at Hamilton City Council. It is currently being advertised and applications close on 5 July. You can apply for the position via the council web-site<http://%20https://hamilton.careercentre.net.nz/job/chief-information-officer-cio-/hamilton-new-zealand/14773>. It is also advertised on seek<http://www.seek.co.nz/job/31234386?pos=12&type=standard&engineConfig=&userqueryid=1366260904829428&tier=no_tier&whereid=5127>. "You will be responsible for developing, implementing and leading a technology vision and enterprise information systems while achieving a cost effective IT service..." If you were inspired by the Linux project<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux> of the city of Munich, then you might like to apply and see if you can implement a similar project for Hamilton. The advertisement makes reference to the "Council's Strategic Framework". This is not a specific IT framework. An overview of what is meant by this framework can be found here<http://www.hamilton.govt.nz/our-council/council-publications/districtplans/proposeddistrictplan/chapter2/Pages/default.aspx>. I look forward to walking into the council building, looking at the monitors the receptionists are using, and seeing them running a Linux desktop environment!
On Monday, June 27, 2016, Ian Stewart <ianstewart56(a)hotmail.com> wrote: I look forward to walking into the council building, looking at the
monitors the receptionists are using, and seeing them running a Linux desktop environment!
Good luck getting Hamilton City Council to use open source. The servers are all Windows. The replacment library management system they switched to is closed. When questioned why they didn't use Koha the pathetic excuse was lack of features. They need to think differently. Need to start using Linux and open source in the backend before frontend. Cheers, William
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