> The rumour is a sun exec let the cat out of the bag about it being the next main filesystem for osx (ie not just support for non root drives) and this annoyed Jobs so much he canned the whole project.
As others here have said Oracle bought Sun two years later. Between me increased memory requirements, uncertainty due to Sun’s status as an ongoing concern, and who knows what else maybe it really did make sense not to go forward.
The ZFS code was already released under the CDDL. What was stopping Apple from writing their own implementation like OpenZFS and FreeBSD, regardless of what happened with Sun?
MBCook|11 months ago
That’s one of the famous rumors.
As others here have said Oracle bought Sun two years later. Between me increased memory requirements, uncertainty due to Sun’s status as an ongoing concern, and who knows what else maybe it really did make sense not to go forward.
kergonath|11 months ago
JCattheATM|11 months ago