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Licensing Issues Behind Decision To Kill Snow Leopard ZFS Plans

5:45AM Jack Loftus | From the OpenSolaris forums, by way of Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, comes word this morning that Apple’s decision to remove ZFS support from Snow Leopard was based on licensing issues. More »
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Linux File Systems Benchmarked

3:40AM Jason Chen | If you’re wondering which file system you should format your new Linux partition as, phoronix has a test of EXT4, BBtrfs and NILFS2. The winner (for the most part): EXT4. Hit the link if you want to find out why. [Phoronix via Slashdot]