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Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

Posted by kdawson on from the you-say-technology-i-say-politics dept.

Roskolnikov writes "Apple has apparently decided that ZFS isn't really ready for prime time. We've been discussing Apple/ZFS rumors, denials, and sightings for some years now. Currently a search on Apple's site for ZFS yields only two hits, one of them probably an oversight in the ZFS-cleansing program and the other a reference to open source. Contrast this with an item from the Google cache regarding ZFS and Snow Leopard. Apple has done this kind of disappearing act in the past, but I was really hoping that this was one feature promise they would keep. I certainly hope this isn't the first foot in the grave for ZFS on OS X."

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  1. Integration issues by henrikba · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Known Issues and Features in the Works page for ZFS on MacOSforge explains the situation pretty well. Integrating ZFS into MacOSX isn't just a matter of creating a device driver. Time Machine, Finder, Spotlight and other core OS products needs to support ZFS features explicitly, since ZFS behaves a lot differently from HFS+.

  2. Re:Larry effect again? by AttilaSz · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's widely known that Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison are good friends, see this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

    "On 18 December 2003, Ellison married Melanie Craft, a romance novelist, at his Woodside estate. His friend Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc's CEO, was the official wedding photographer."

    So, no, Larry's company becoming ZFS owner ain't the reason Steve's company would drop it.

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