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NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0

Written on May 25, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 16 people have commented

Today it’s the foundation for all modern pre-installed Windows systems. It replaced the aging FAT (File Allocation Table) file system with a leaner, meaner standard. It’s more secure, more flexible, and has more built-in gadgets than a Swiss Army Knife. It’s NTFS, of course — the New Technology File System.
I grew up with NTFS. I [...]

ZFS Not Out, Not In Either

Written on June 12, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 11 people have commented

Apple shed a little light today, on the lack of ZFS appearing on the Leopard information pages. It seems that ZFS will not be the default file system in Leopard – this much we’ve already deduced. But how exactly will Apple be supporting it?
is only available a read-only option from the command line,
Read-only [...]