Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS 'the file system' in OSX 10.5 Leopard. "In fact, this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS X."
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Member since:2005-11-14
Just stop asking!
ZFS is not going to be IN the Linux kernel any time soon due to licensing problem.
A FUSE port in is progress, and is actually working well, though.
http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/
Member since:2005-07-11
Member since:2006-08-18
A FUSE solution would be just as good as a kernel one. FUSE is fast and stable just by judging the stable NTFS-3G driver.
Anyway, I wonder what advantages Solaris has left now that the other *nixes are adopting all it's showoff features (ZFS, DTrace, ...)?
Sun wants to see a Solaris rival against the other *nix platforms, no? Well having all it's competitive features mirrored in other OSes wont help accomplish that.
Edited 2007-06-07 03:34
Member since:2005-07-07
If that's the case, why bother open sourcing anything at all? Someone will come along and copy the features of your product and then you'll have competitors sporting the same features you have.
Competitors may be able to implement it on their own version of *nix, but Sun came up with the original technology. Ergo, they are the most knowledgable about the tech and will be the ones who will advance it the most. Others will be playing catch-up.
Besides, Sun can always build a business of supporting Solaris for enterprise customers. Sun and the Solaris brand name still carry a lot of weight, even more so in the light of Sun's positive karma from all the open sourcing it's doing.
Member since:2005-11-14
Sun wants to see a Solaris rival against the other *nix platforms, no? Well having all it's competitive features mirrored in other OSes wont help accomplish that.
Sun doesn't care too much about OSX, FreeBSD or all the other unices around.
They are afraid of Linux, and that's why they accurately wrote the ZFS (and other key technologies) license to make it incompatible with the Linux kernel, still being an open license.
Sun is obviously pushing Solaris in the same battlefield where Linux is now, and they don't way to loose their competitive weapons.
It is sad from a Linux user point of view, but I think that this is a winning strategy for Sun.
Member since:2005-07-06
Sun wants to see a Solaris rival against the other *nix platforms, no? Well having all it's competitive features mirrored in other OSes wont help accomplish that.
Sun wants to see Sun hardware and services beat out all others. I can't imagine they care too much what OS you run, as long as you run it on Sun hardware with a Sun support contract. Otherwise why would they be offering both Linux and Windows as an option on much of their hardware.
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2006-01-04
Prefered commercial desktop OS: Mac 10.5
Prefered Free desktop OS: Linux
Please no flaming, nothing behind a simple opinion here
Now, I wonder if ZFS will come/is coming to Linux? I have the impression that it was already in some BSD variant... at least in testing.