Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CAEB9FC29C for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:35:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01471-01 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:35:06 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (floppy.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC689FC297 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 10:35:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id B0E7930909; Fri, 11 May 2007 15:35:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Adam Witney X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:35:03 +0100 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1178574927.533849.90730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <463FFF76.5070108@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214 Thread-Topic: Best OS for Postgres 8.2 Thread-Index: AceT0S3ZbHmkBv/EEduc3QAX8shThw== To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200705/232 X-Sequence-Number: 24622 > currently ZFS is only available on Solaris, parts of it have been released > under GPLv2, but it doesn't look like enough of it to be ported to Linux > (enough was released for grub to be able to access it read-only, but not > the full filesystem). there are also patent concerns that are preventing > any porting to Linux. I don't know if anyone mentioned this in the thread already, but it looks like ZFS may be coming to MacOSX 10.5 http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2006/12/17/zfs-file-system-makes-it-to -mac-os-x-leopard/