No ZFS Support in Leopard?
InformationWeek claims that Brian Croll, senior director of product marketing for the Mac OS, has said that "ZFS is not happening" when questioned about ZFS's inclusion in Leopard.
This contradicts a statement made by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz during a speech last week:
Prior betas of Leopard included evidence of early ZFS formatting availability. No word whether the WWDC build of Leopard has any signs of ZFS.
This contradicts a statement made by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz during a speech last week:
In fact, this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10.
Prior betas of Leopard included evidence of early ZFS formatting availability. No word whether the WWDC build of Leopard has any signs of ZFS.
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61 months ago
I wouldn't be entirelly surprised to see somesmall form or ZFS support, though I'd be more surprised to see boot support or especially the default file system. The most likely place to see it would be in Leopard server.
61 months ago
I didn't expect it (edit: as the default FS). We knew that Apple was interested, but I always assumed that Jonathan was jumping to conclusions.
61 months ago
Please give us bootable ZFS Apple (& Sun)?
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ZFS + timemachine makes sense.
61 months ago
SJ wouldn't deep six the entire filing system for Leopard just to punish Schwartz for his slip-up, would he? Seriously, there's a lot more at stake than just a graphics card.
Maybe Sun is just in SJ's doghouse right now, and ZFS will be announced as one of the 290 other features of Leopard when it is released in October.
Maybe Sun is just in SJ's doghouse right now, and ZFS will be announced as one of the 290 other features of Leopard when it is released in October.
61 months ago
I wonder why he would say that then. Kinda makes him look dumb. I wonder what that meeting was like at apple after they hear the claims of ZFS. "um, no, I am certian Mr. Jobs. We didnt use it. I am not quite sure why he said that."
61 months ago
I sure hope they at least make it an option in some way. Is ZFS compatible with vista? I am about to buy an external Lacie hard drive & need to format it to work both with OS X & XP/Vista. Didn't know once 10.5 is released if I formated the external drive in ZFS if a Windows computer would be able to read/write to it.
61 months ago
I still bet it happens someday, maybe October, maybe later.
I wasn't likely to reformat my whole drive just to go ZFS anyway, but it would be cool to have the option. ZFS sounds like an outstanding FS. Maybe one day it will be the default on new Macs.
I wasn't likely to reformat my whole drive just to go ZFS anyway, but it would be cool to have the option. ZFS sounds like an outstanding FS. Maybe one day it will be the default on new Macs.
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