Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS

That's too bad if so. ZFS is pretty cool technology (i've been pretty impressed with it so far for my personal use). I was really hoping it was going to be added at some point to OSX. Hopefully apple's in house implementation will fix a lot of the same issues ZFS was aiming at.

msie• 17 years ago

Ah yes, patents - the enemy of progress.

bprater• 17 years ago

Well, that's fairly disappointing. I've been excitedly watching for it to make it into the operating system. I think it would be a positive but subtle shake-up for the industry.

jbyers• 17 years ago

Five years on and ZFS still remains just out of reach. I'm not a likely user on OS X (anyone got a good use case for laptop use?) but other filesystem + volume management solutions on Linux never seem to match up.

cookiecaper• 17 years ago

Here's hoping btrfs keeps it real.

jeduan• 17 years ago

Don't know, Gruber mentions something about ZFS being now related to Oracle as a bad thing, and the ties of btrfs and Oracle may do this another no-go from legal

dtf• 17 years ago

Me too. Ted Ts'o (ext4's maintainer) has said the btrfs is the future.

arete• 17 years ago

How about checksums to detect corruption on those fragile spinning disks you're picking up and carrying around the room? Or quick and efficient snapshots, scheduled frequently? This is seriously disappointing, if not surprising.

petsos• 17 years ago

Another useful laptop feature is the option to use duplicate blocks as a poor man's RAID (zfs set copies option). Could be used for system files or other critical data.

rbanffy4• 17 years ago

"anyone got a good use case for laptop use?"

Their laptops are gorgeus.

OK... The OS is not my favorite. It's currently a tie with OpenSolaris for me (nicer GUI on one, package management on the other), but both bot are behind Jaunty (and probably will be behind Karmic)

dschobel• 17 years ago

I believe OP was speaking about the filesystem specifically.

lallysingh• 17 years ago

Very good sleep, hibernate, and wakeup behavior.

rbanffy4• 17 years ago

I would not call it out of reach. You can download OpenSolaris and use it. The Gnome desktop is a bit older than Ubuntu or Fedora, but, still, it's usable.

bayareaguy• 17 years ago

anyone got a good use case for laptop use?

I may be in the minority but I would have liked the opportunity to use the same filesystem on my OSX laptop that I do on my database server.

dylanz• 17 years ago

Damn, was looking forward to ZFS. Are they working on an alternative?

bbb• 17 years ago

According to Gruber, yes.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/23/zfs

Here's your chance in building the better alternative. ;-)

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?method=mExternal.showJob&...

wmf3• 17 years ago

Unfortunately, if Apple dropped ZFS because of the NetApp lawsuit that means their homegrown next-gen filesystem will probably avoid many of the efficient-yet-patented techniques found in ZFS.

pinko• 17 years ago

Noooooooooooo.

c00p3r• 17 years ago

Seems like this decision came from Oracle. Switch to freebsd. =)

Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS

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