Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Jun 2009 20:44 UTC
Between all the updated MacBooks and Snow Leopard news items across the web, you'd almost forget that Apple also has its own server operating system which will also got updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard yesterday. It benefits from the same improvements as the client version, but of course also has a set of its own, server-specific improvements.
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I'm just guessing here, so don't take my word for it. Here are my hypotheses on the matter:
Possibility 1: Apple lost interest and in ZFS and won't bother with it anymore. I can't see any reason for doing this, but Apple has previously disappointed people for no visible reason.
Possibility 2: The ZFS implementation in Snow Leopard was rather incomplete (fact), and Apple wants to instead fully implement in in a later release (10.7?). ZFS was not supported in the desktop version, and was only supported as a secondary FS in Server (eg. can't have ZFS boot volume); this really was a rather dull and ugly setup.
Add On Speculation: Maybe Apple wants to integrate ZFS fully with OSX, both desktop and server. HFS+ is getting rather outdated now, and will be due for replacement soon enough. ZFS as default FS to replace HFS+ in 10.7? ZFS based Time Machine maybe??? They might just be wanting to introduce it in a more complete form.