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Remember all of the hype behind ZFS for OS X? Remember how everyone was talking about how great it would be to add such a powerful and robust file system for the Mac? Something to replace the aging and outdated HFS+. Well you can forget about ZFS. Apple has decided to shut down the project. Maybe they got busy with other stuff and forgot about it. Maybe it just wasn’t what they were looking for. Who really knows, but as time goes on, Apple will be behind the gun if they continue to use HFS+

From the project page on Mac OS Forge:

ZFS Project Shutdown
2009-10-23
The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly.
It’s hinted that this was caused by legal issues surrounding the merger of Sun Microsystems and Oracle, which caused Apple to back away from the next-generation file system technology. After many rumors, including ZFS support that was going to be added in Snow Leopard Server, but that ended up being removed in the final version, it now seems like the saga of ZFS on Mac OS X is ending with a whimper.

Dead: ZFS For The Mac originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2009/10/24. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.

ZFS For Your Mac

Frank — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:16:00 +0000

What is zfs you might ask? It’s a new filesystem that was developed by Sun for the Open Solaris OS. Why should you be excited about it on a Mac? Let’s take a step back first. A while ago there was a rumour that ZFS was going to be included in Leopard. While the CEO of Sun told people that it was true, it turned out to be just that, a rumour.

So here it is (an unstable version as of yet); the ZFS project. ZFS is a superior file system; it provides simple administration (think no more fsck), transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and some serious scalability, and it’s here for your Mac. We strongly remind you that it’s still in its testing stages, so keep it off any machine with critical data, but if, no when ZFS for the Mac matures it will be a great benefit for any user.

[Via Download Squad]

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