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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2005-07-07
A filesystem isn't something you can just yank out of the OS at a whim. If they were planning on supporting ZFS, the code should already be in place.
However, I'm not getting my hopes up. I've wanted to use UFS natively instead of HFS+ since Jaguar. I mean, a filesystem that doesn't have capitalization (!!). However, my efforts have always been thwarted since UFS apparently doesn't handle resource forks in the same way as HFS+. While most applications would work, there are a significant number that fail.
The impression I get is that HFS+ is so ingrained into OS X that if ZFS is truly supported, it will be no small feat to have this feature pulled. It is way more likely that Schwartz just got over excited when he heard that ZFS was going to be "supported".