Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Jun 2007 19:49 UTC
An Apple official on Monday said Sun's open-source file system would not be in the next version of the Mac operating system, contradicting statements made last week by Sun's chief executive. During an interview with InformationWeek, Brian Croll, senior director of product marketing for the Mac OS, said, "ZFS is not happening," when asked whether Sun's Zettabyte File System would be in Leopard. Instead, Leopard would use Apple's current hierarchical file system, called HFS+. The Apple file system was first introduced in 1998 in Mac OS 8.0.
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It doesn't have the sophistication of ZFS when it comes to pooling drives together. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_File_System#Storage_pools
ZFS is particularly important for people who deal with large files. Since a high percentage of computer graphic designers use Macs, ZFS is very beneficial. Also, Apple has attracted video editing professionals, and ZFS fits perfectly with this.