ZFS Read/Write Developer Beta for Leopard
It appears that Sun's Jonathan Schwartz may have known what he was talking about when he claimed that ZFS support was coming to Mac OS X at WWDC.
WWDC came and went, however, with no ZFS announcement from Apple. Instead, Apple's Brian Croll flat out said ZFS is not happening. He later clarified that ZFS for Leopard was present but "read-only" -- meaning that Leopard was unable to write data to ZFS volumes.
Now, according to published reports on the internet, Apple has actually seeded developers with a ZFS Read/Write Beta for Leopard. The new ZFS Read/Write beta enables full read/write capabilities to Apple's Mac OS X (Leopard).
WWDC came and went, however, with no ZFS announcement from Apple. Instead, Apple's Brian Croll flat out said ZFS is not happening. He later clarified that ZFS for Leopard was present but "read-only" -- meaning that Leopard was unable to write data to ZFS volumes.
Now, according to published reports on the internet, Apple has actually seeded developers with a ZFS Read/Write Beta for Leopard. The new ZFS Read/Write beta enables full read/write capabilities to Apple's Mac OS X (Leopard).
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61 months ago
While we don't generally subscribe to conspiracy theories behind Apple's motivations, this constant back-and-forth about ZFS's inclusion in Leopard is suggestive of some behind-the-scenes drama with Sun's CEO's premature announcement.
Or it could be just a general lack of coordinating when it comes to disseminating the info internally. If you've ever worked in any large, corporate environment, you know how easily even important info can be missed and/or misunderstood. That whole ZFS-is-in-now-it's-out-now-it's-in-again thing could be easily explained away as a series of people knowing nothing or knowing only part of the info they were talking about.
61 months ago
... so maybe ZFS really IS how Time Machine creates the backups. Hmmmmmmm :D
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61 months ago
I'm still assuming that this was always the case but Mr. Jobs got pissed when the other guy (can't remember his name even though I just read it in the article) said it would be in Leopard. He probably was going to at least mention it at WWDC but just pulled it so that it didn't really get any publicity.
61 months ago
That whole ZFS-is-in-now-it's-out-now-it's-in-again thing could be easily explained away as a series of people knowing nothing or knowing only part of the info they were talking about.
Very possible. :) though it seems odd they didn't release ZFS read/write beta at WWDC, and waited 2 weeks.
I guess, for all we know, they could have announced it under nda.
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61 months ago
That sounds awesome, if Leopard comes out with ZFS supported fully it would make a lot more sense considering the rumors before WWDC07.
61 months ago
so maybe ZFS really IS how Time Machine creates the backups. Hmmmmmmm
it could be, but it wasn't in the previous developer builds
61 months ago
... so maybe ZFS really IS how Time Machine creates the backups. Hmmmmmmm :D
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It works just fine without ZFS.
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