Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Dec 2006 16:58 UTC, submitted by Hakime
A French user has discovered that ZFS is now 'officially' supported in Leopard [French], while testing the latest build of Apple's upcoming operating system. Indeed it is now possible to create disk images or partitions formated in ZFS (screen capture included). However, it seems that it is not possible yet to install the OS on a ZFS partition.
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2005-07-24
Congratulations, Mac fans. I'm a Linux user, but recognize that ZFS is a filesystem second to none.
If Sun goes GPL on Solaris, which seems likely to happen, we might get a shot at this, too. (GPL is nice and all, but sometimes its unintended consequences are a damned pain.)
Whether ZFS would ever make it into the mainline kernel is another matter. Andrew Moton has described it as a "rampant layering violation", though I should hasten to add that his statement was actually praising ZFS's feature set while noting this fundamental clash with Linux kernel policies.
I suspect that we would see an out of tree port first, followed by individual ZFS features making there way into the appropriate layers of the Linux kernel.
At any rate, looks like you guys are getting there ahead of us. Kudos!
-Steve Bergman