Storage Options & ZFS

So, I keep hearing about ZFS these days, and from the benefits is supposedly provides I'm surprised that it has been kept as quiet as it has been. If you don't know much about ZFS, check out Sun's article outlining its features here.

I'm starting to get pretty excited about it as I would love to have it implemented in some of my storage solutions. I know people who have spent money on drobo, and while I do think the drobo is really sweet, I really feel like a filesystem like ZFS would be much more practical. Now, if only there were a way to implement it in some of the Operating Systems I actually use...

Technically, there is a way using OS X (10.5 on an intel mac only, I believe), though this method is not fully integrated with the OS yet, so a lot of the neat features (like actually being able to boot from your ZFS partition) aren't supported yet. Check it out here. From what I've seen and read about ZFS on mac, it does add a few really awesome improvements. I haven't tried it myself yet, though I probably will eventually and I'll be sure to post a review and some of my findings once I get around to it.

EDIT: Fun little side-note. Check Wikipedia's article on ZFS for fun theoretical limits of the ZFS filesystem.