[oblio]

I hope you're not right. There are so many wonderful filesystems already out there, many of them already Open Source.

I'm not against research, but I'd rather have Apple fund one of these existing efforts.

[bydo]

Which? Apple won't adopt anything GPL, so BTRFS, XFS, JFS, etc--basically every Linux project is right out. It was almost ZFS, years ago, but Apple backed out when Oracle bought Sun. What out there is modern, good, and under a compatible license? HAMMER?

[deftnerd]

They could probably buy up the rights to BeFS for really cheap now. It was a beautiful file system, in my opinion.

[chipotle_coyote]

IIRC, they hired Dominic Giampaolo to work on the file system for a while -- he was responsible for adding journaling to HFS+ and started Spotlight, which has a lot in common with BeFS's attributes. He apparently worked on a new file system for them but it never shipped.

http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/

[grubles]

btrfs, zfs, and any other checksumming FS is useless without ECC RAM.

[the_why_of_y]

Not any more useless than any other (non-checksumming) filesystem.

[jedisct1]

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