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Can I please, please, please have a Windows port? At work, we use Windows boxes, and I would love to use ZFS on them.
by VikingCoder 13y ago
Can I please, please, please have a Windows port?
At work, we use Windows boxes, and I would love to use ZFS on them.
- astrodust 13y agoThe operating systems that are getting support are mostly or at least partly open-source, so good luck with that.
- Demiurge 13y agoThat's probably not as big of a detriment as the high level functionality Windows expects to be in the filesystem layer that unix doesn't (or puts in VFS). From what I read, this is why Microsoft themselves have a hard time replacing NTFS.
- VikingCoder 13y agoThere's having ZFS running as a native Windows file system... ...and then there's running ZFS on my Windows systems, which I must use a special API to access. The second one isn't ideal, but it would be awesome to have.
- Elhana 13y agoThere is http://code.google.com/p/zfs-win/ http://code.google.com/p/zfs-win/ ,but it is not really useful.
- gtirloni 13y agoYou might be surprised at what WinServer 2012 already supports in that area: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/storage-features.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/s...
- VikingCoder 13y agoYou might be surprised that if you pay more money, Microsoft has more to sell you. No, I'm not. I like FOSS, and ZFS seems excellent - I wish it made it to Windows. Like, Windows 7, for consumers and businesses...