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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: dreed on June 14, 2014, 11:51:26 am

Title: HFS+ Bit Rot
Post by: dreed on June 14, 2014, 11:51:26 am
Worth a read for those that think hard drive archives are impervious to failure (as long as they keep spinning):
http://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/ (http://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/)
Title: Re: HFS+ Bit Rot
Post by: Chris Kern on June 14, 2014, 01:07:50 pm
I've never understood why Apple ultimately decided not to implement ZFS after apparently making all the preparations to do so.  It's arguably the most robust filesystem currently in existence for single-drive implementations and, for most purposes, it makes hardware RAID controllers unnecessary in a multi-drive environment.
Title: Re: HFS+ Bit Rot
Post by: francois on June 15, 2014, 12:15:36 pm
I've never understood why Apple ultimately decided not to implement ZFS after apparently making all the preparations to do so.  It's arguably the most robust filesystem currently in existence for single-drive implementations and, for most purposes, it makes hardware RAID controllers unnecessary in a multi-drive environment.

It looks like licensing might have been a problem, at least according to this article (http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-on-mac-os-x-project-over-licensing-issues/).

Some hints (http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1232439) about ZFS on Macs