Apple Says No Zfs For Mac
To the very best of my knowledge there is not a single mention of zfs in any official info currently released by apple about snow leopard. More i can not say here because of the forum rules but this should tell you something. If you want unofficial info consult other websites.
Apple now says that the ZFS file system will be available in the forthcoming Mac operating system, sort of. Seeking to clarify a statement made on Monday by Brian Croll, senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing, to two InformationWeek reporters that, an Apple spokesperson indicated that ZFS would be available as a limited option, but not as the default file system. ZFS 'is only available a read-only option from the command line,' according to an Apple spokesperson.
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In a follow-up interview today, Croll explained, 'ZFS is not the default file system for Leopard. We are exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage. As a result, we have included ZFS -- a read-only copy of ZFS -- in Leopard.' 'Read-only means that at a later date, if there are ZFS volumes, those systems would be able to read ZFS volumes,' Croll added. 'You cannot write data into the system.
It will allow you to read ZFS volumes later.' Asked whether ZFS might be implemented for Apple's Xserve rack mountable server line, Croll said, 'Where we head in the future, we're not able to talk about.' ZFS is a 128-bit open-source file system originally created for Sun's Solaris operating system. It is widely seen as a more robust alternative to Apple's current HFS+ file system. In the electric mist music.
InformationWeek requested a preview copy of 'Leopard,' but Apple representatives declined to provide one. Several developers at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference who were approached for comment about Leopard declined to speak, citing non-disclosure agreements with Apple. According to one InformationWeek reader posting to our forum under the name 'Akie,' ZFS can be accessed through the Disk Utility program, under the Erase menu. 'Sun hasn't got Solaris to run with ZFS as the boot drive, or at least reliably, so ZFS is only available on non-boot drives on Sun systems, so this is also the case for Leopard,' said Akie, adding that Leopard includes a new form of RAID called RAID-Z, 'which uses ZFS and overcomes one of the major problems with RAID, the write hole.'
The 'write hole' is a problem with the RAID-5 implementation that permits data loss following a loss of power or crash.
There have been many speculated reasons on the demise of ZFS on Mac OS X. About the only thing that you can say is that (a) it has been deprecated, almost certainly for good, and (b) that no-one knows the real reason why, or at least, isn't saying. Update Jeff Bonwick, creator of ZFS, suggests that it was that was the blocker. Answers from lawsuits and patent litigation to excessive licensing fees and the impact of the Snoracle deal have been suggested; another is system stability. However, the why is somewhat unimportant, since the end result is the same - Apple no longer support ZFS on Mac OS X. Does this mean this is the end of ZFS on Mac OS X? Not necessarily.
Epson epln1200157389 free driver download official for mac. Before the project was yanked, enterprising individuals made copies of the SVN repository (on GitHub,, ) and of the last publicly available installers and installers were cached ). A new project has been set up to take over the maintenance and on-going development of the ZFS extension, and a exists with 90 members, mostly from the old Apple-hosted list. The previous ZFS builds works on Leopard and a new build for the 64-bit Snow Leopard has been made available. Work will continue and hopefully port forward some of the later enhancements to ZFS that have been made on the OpenSolaris group since the Mac fork occurred at build 72. Whilst Apple is looking to recruit new filesystem developers, and is likely looking to extend the increasingly crufty HFS or take lessons learned from ZFS and apply those to the next generation filesystem, probably making its appearance in 10.7 or afterwards. In the meantime, the ZFS project continues to live on in a new location.
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