ZFS canned for Leopard

Robert Hallock 12 Jun, 2007 at 11:29pm ET Article published in Tech

Despite statements that the ZFS file system (Redundancy ho!) would power Apple’s new Leopard OS, Apple has dropped the bomb and said that it’s not the case. HFS+, the current standard, ran up the alternative flagpole in 1998, will continue to be the FS of choice in the near future.

In the mean time, sales of black turtle-necks are expected to decline.

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13 Jun 2007 ~ 12:12am airbornflght Its not totally canned. I believe if the sources are correct that leopard will be able to read, but not write to ZFS. Which leads me to believe they are looking at a future implementation.
13 Jun 2007 ~ 12:15am Thrax Yay semantics.
13 Jun 2007 ~ 8:02am kryyst It was in some of the beta versions and I would suspect that they'll save it for the server version of leopard. It's an extremely robust file system that could be argued is overkill for a home system but perfectly at home on a server.
13 Jun 2007 ~ 9:43am primesuspect Sun just got bootable ZFS volumes on their OWN OS. The cpu overhead is intense on this filesystem, it's designed for enterprise boxes. Remember, A solaris 10 enterprise system sometimes has hundreds of processors, so a little CPU overhead for a kickass bulletproof filesystem is acceptable.... but on a little desktop computer with 2 or 4 cpus? Not acceptable..
13 Jun 2007 ~ 12:54pm Garg Read-only for now has been confirmed by an Apple spokesperson. It will probably be in Xserve, but of course, Apple isn't talking about that.

I think it was funny that Brian Croll (senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing) said "ZFS is not happening" on Monday, only to have to come back yesterday and admit to it being partially implemented.
13 Jun 2007 ~ 7:26pm airbornflght

Gargoyle wrote:

Read-only for now has been confirmed by an Apple spokesperson. It will probably be in Xserve, but of course, Apple isn't talking about that.

I think it was funny that Brian Croll (senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing) said "ZFS is not happening" on Monday, only to have to come back yesterday and admit to it being partially implemented.

airbornflght wrote:

Its not totally canned. I believe if the sources are correct that leopard will be able to read, but not write to ZFS. Which leads me to believe they are looking at a future implementation.
13 Jun 2007 ~ 7:51pm Garg Yes, I read your post before I posted. Yes, I still posted. Do you want me to explain why, or something?
13 Jun 2007 ~ 8:42pm airbornflght no, its quite alright
13 Jun 2007 ~ 9:05pm Garg

airbornflght wrote:

no, its quite alright

Just as well; it's all very complicated, really. It involved pandas.
13 Jun 2007 ~ 9:33pm airbornflght http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/zfs_on_a_laptop

interesting.