Mmm, this guy could really do with looking at ZFS on Solaris (and hopefully working fully in OS X soon).
In built-compression, revision history via checkpoints, copy on write for disk efficiency and full checksums throughout the entire filing system. All ZFS features that thinks don't exist anywhere but git.
Sure, ZFS is not a revision control system - but he's not thinking of git in that way in his article. He's thinking of git as an FS, which ZFS naturally is today and will provide all the niceness (such as block level diff syncs) he wants for this projects.
I wish I could use ZFS for my OSX laptop now. Yesterday, after applying an update, /etc/authorization got screwed up - with the FS pointing to some completely wrong blocks on the filing system. This file is essential to the system booting up so it was noticed. It is hard to tell whether any other files were effected in a similar manner though - ZFS could easily detect such issues.
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In built-compression, revision history via checkpoints, copy on write for disk efficiency and full checksums throughout the entire filing system. All ZFS features that thinks don't exist anywhere but git.
Sure, ZFS is not a revision control system - but he's not thinking of git in that way in his article. He's thinking of git as an FS, which ZFS naturally is today and will provide all the niceness (such as block level diff syncs) he wants for this projects.
I wish I could use ZFS for my OSX laptop now. Yesterday, after applying an update, /etc/authorization got screwed up - with the FS pointing to some completely wrong blocks on the filing system. This file is essential to the system booting up so it was noticed. It is hard to tell whether any other files were effected in a similar manner though - ZFS could easily detect such issues.