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Curious
What features does ZFS sport that NTFS does
not? Which of those are important to data
integrity?

Reading the IRON File Systems I couldn't
help notice that NTFS fared quite well. Do you
have any data to suggest that ZFS would fare
better than these other file systems?

The file systems from the study still evolve.
In particular NTFS has received updates and
numerous new features with each revision. NTFS
now has background recovery of files, i.e. it
will attempt to repair corrupted files in the
background while the system stays running (only
the suspected file will be unavailable for the
duration).

The file systems and operating systems may also
divide the tasks differently. Since Windows
2003, Windows has had the volume shadow copy
service for creating snapshots. While not part
of the file system per se, it meets the exact
same purpose.
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Curious  honeymonster | 08/29/09
ZFS is a decade ahead of NTFS, even with updates  914four | 09/09/09
Disks already do ECC natively  zackers | 10/06/09
Thank you Robin Harris, for giving Windows folks some ammunition.  Solid Jedi Knight | 08/29/09
I think it was the Oracle thing.  No More Microsoft Software Ever! | 08/29/09
I agree  914four | 09/09/09
Or Maybe...  wolf_z | 08/29/09
ZFS is in large scale production now  Robin Harris ZDNet Moderator | 08/29/09
And FAT32 and NTFS are still in production  John Zern | 08/29/09
Who owns Sun Microsystems now?  UsernameRequired | 08/30/09
Licensing Problem?  aj.redmond@... | 09/01/09
Aren't Steve and Larry tight?  matthew_maurice | 08/30/09
RE: Apple kicks ZFS in the butt  rickdees@... | 08/29/09
Does it makes sense for an "install in place" OS?  jeremychappell | 08/29/09
LOL, check out this previous post on ZDNet  Qbt | 08/29/09
Are you suggesting Microsoft would have dumped ZFS too?  No More Microsoft Software Ever! | 08/29/09
LOL, no  Qbt | 08/30/09
Ext4 file system is why.  progon | 08/29/09
err..Ext4 is not an OS (NT)  No More Microsoft Software Ever! | 08/29/09
ext4 is nothing like ZFS, btrfs is though.  B.O.F.H. | 08/29/09
Still prefer Ubuntu to OSX  root12 | 08/30/09
Sorry, but that's wrong.  914four | 09/09/09
What a difference a year makes.. (kick-butt-kick)  dszimmer | 08/29/09
RE: Apple kicks ZFS in the butt  my.subscriptions@... | 08/29/09
That would be my guess as well  914four | 09/09/09
ZFS comes at a huge cost  boxmonkey | 08/30/09
good point  fredericr | 08/30/09
Perf costs of ZFS. Sounds like a great article to write, Robin!  quux | 08/30/09
You can probably improve the performance of your array...  914four | 09/09/09
RE: Apple kicks ZFS in the butt  UsernameRequired | 08/30/09
It got Steved because Jonathan broke the news early  harrib | 08/30/09
Are you suggesting Apple consumers are paying for Jobs' hurt pride?  NonZealot | 08/30/09
ORACLE BOUGHT SUN. ZFS IS DEAD.  darthstupid | 08/30/09
Something about ease of use and the experience  mlindl | 08/31/09
Good for you!  bmgoodman | 08/31/09
Ah yes, I remember the WinFS bashing  8string | 08/31/09
Ah, but did the author of ZFS butt-kicking harp on Microsoft?  HypnoToad72 | 08/31/09
RE: Apple kicks ZFS in the butt  cabdriverjim | 08/31/09
BugID?  Burana | 08/31/09
Fair enough. Vista was hyped as having WinFS and it was dropped...  HypnoToad72 | 08/31/09
Just do a search on ZDNet for "WinFS". Plenty of bashing back then...  Qbt | 08/31/09
There is a fair bit of difference between...  zkiwi | 08/31/09
RE: Apple kicks ZFS in the butt  sheepguy42 | 08/31/09
RE: Apple kicks ZFS in the butt  Douglas Ward | 09/02/09
Sun, Apple, ZFS, LustreFS, Zones/Jails  z3r0_f4ct0r | 09/03/09

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