[indiana-discuss] Apple has dropped ZFS?

[James Cornell]

Uros Nedic wrote:
> As I have heard Apple didn't drop ZFS, but it is unknown when whole
> ZFS features will be integrated into new version of Mac OS X.
> 
> They had plan to port everything already, but it looks like it'll
> not happen.
> 
> Regards,
> Uros Nedic 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: indiana-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org
> [mailto:indiana-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Gilles Gravier
> Sent: June 11, 2009 7:59 AM
> To: Indiana Discuss
> Subject: [indiana-discuss] Apple has dropped ZFS?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I hear Apple dropped ZFS from Mac OS? Is that true? Any idea why?
> 
> Gilles.
Henny penny.  They never properly released it as more than a beta,
starting with ro for Solaris volumes, later adding support for rw.
EFI/GUID boot support was never there, and it was never the intention to
ultimately use ZFS for root.  It will come back if they have interest in
it, and there is certainly interest on the workgroup/server side of
things, and with some sysadmins who happen to use Macs.  The license
would not be the thing to stop the development of ZFS on OSX, nor would
anything technical given Apple's huge engineering staff.

- James