Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS

[durin42]

There's a Google Group [0] and a github repo [1] for those interested in keeping going with the last code drop from Apple.

[0] https://groups.google.com/group/zfs-macos

[1] http://github.com/peaceful/zfs-mac

[dlsspy]

I ported it and have an installer for Snow Leopard:

http://dustin.github.com/2009/10/23/mac-zfs.html

[jbyers]

Five years on and ZFS still remains just out of reach. I'm not a likely user on OS X (anyone got a good use case for laptop use?) but other filesystem + volume management solutions on Linux never seem to match up.

[cookiecaper]

Here's hoping btrfs keeps it real.

[arete]

How about checksums to detect corruption on those fragile spinning disks you're picking up and carrying around the room? Or quick and efficient snapshots, scheduled frequently? This is seriously disappointing, if not surprising.

[bayareaguy]

anyone got a good use case for laptop use?

I may be in the minority but I would have liked the opportunity to use the same filesystem on my OSX laptop that I do on my database server.

[rbanffy]

I would not call it out of reach. You can download OpenSolaris and use it. The Gnome desktop is a bit older than Ubuntu or Fedora, but, still, it's usable.

[lallysingh]

Very good sleep, hibernate, and wakeup behavior.

[rbanffy]

"anyone got a good use case for laptop use?"

Their laptops are gorgeus.

OK... The OS is not my favorite. It's currently a tie with OpenSolaris for me (nicer GUI on one, package management on the other), but both bot are behind Jaunty (and probably will be behind Karmic)

[bprater]

Well, that's fairly disappointing. I've been excitedly watching for it to make it into the operating system. I think it would be a positive but subtle shake-up for the industry.

[dylanz]

Damn, was looking forward to ZFS. Are they working on an alternative?

[bbb]

According to Gruber, yes.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/23/zfs

Here's your chance in building the better alternative. ;-)

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?method=mExternal.showJob&...

[pclark]

why?

[samg]

Looks like it was a legal issue:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/10/23/zfs

[wmf]

This is Apple we're talking about. The world may never know.

[c00p3r]

Seems like this decision came from Oracle. Switch to freebsd. =)

[pinko]

Noooooooooooo.