According to Sun, 'The largest SI prefix we liked was 'zetta.'' Sun was obviously seeking to evoke a really big number to remind everyone of the file system's data (and number of files) capacity. 'Zetta,' by the way, is one of the standard SI prefixes - as are the much more familiar 'kilo,' 'mega' and 'giga' - and represents 1021, or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000. What does ZFS stand for? At one time, it was an acronym for Zettabyte File System, but Sun now prefers that the name stand on its own. Just what is ZFS, and why did it send Mac enthusiasts spinning? Read on. That happened this week, when Sun Microsystems Inc.'s CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, would rely on a file system that engineers at his company have spent years creating: ZFS.
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Sun Microsystems's CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard would rely on a file system that his engineers created: ZFS.Īpple Inc.
