Apple to use Sun's ZFS in Leopard

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Apple has big plans for the Zettabyte File System in Sun's 'Thumper' hybrid storage/server platform. It will become the file system for the Mac OS 10.5 Leopard's file system.

ZFS is a high-performance 128-bit file system originally created by Sun for its Solaris operating system.

Integrating ZFS into Leopard could give Apple the benefit of having the same next-gen file system stretching from its base computers and notebooks all the way up to servers and storage boxes. ZFS' claim to fame comes from the way it protects large amounts of data spread across myriad low-cost storage systems.