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Why will there be no official ZFS in MacOS?

Sunday, October 25. 2009

Jeff Bonwick writes about this situation:

Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it
> (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private
> license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and
> indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually
> agreeable terms.
I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.

Jeff

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Why do I get the feeling that the unreasonable participant in that conversation was the one most dependent on monopoly control for its business model?

#1 RandyB on 2009-10-25 13:33 (Reply)

Why do I feel confused by the reference to "monopoly control" when of the two companies in question [Sun and Apple], neither of them has a monopoly on any part of either the hardware or software market?

That said, I'm still gutted about no ZFS in 10.6. Whose fault? Well, that is somewhat of a moot point at this juncture.

#1.1 Mark Glossop (Homepage) on 2009-10-25 13:52 (Reply)

I thinks he talks about monopoly control as in "You are just allowed to run MacOS X on system with an Apple on it" or "You can just sell you App in the App Store, when Apple approves it"

#1.1.1 Jörg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-10-25 15:18 (Reply)

business people's FAIL

techies would have loved it

#2 felix on 2009-10-26 08:23 (Reply)

Do you know this one here? Some opinion from "the other side"...

http://devwhy.blogspot.com/2009/10/loss-of-zfs.html

#3 Stefan on 2009-10-26 09:46 (Reply)

It would take days to rebuild a RAID pair on 1.5 terabyte mirrored drives under MacOSX after an improper shutdown.

Under an old Sun SPARC Solaris system, ZFS takes from a half day (to completely add a new 1.5 TB external USB drive to mirror an existing [mostly full] drive) to just seconds of resilvering, on an improper shutdown.

Local external hard drive data on various Mac clients are now being consolidated onto a newly deployed SPARC Solaris 10 platform with a 1GigE... after the dropping of ZFS by Apple.

PC's are also appreciating the drive space on the network, even though they don't produce the volume of data that the Mac's do. (Creative data from video production, billboards, television recording, etc. consumes a lot more data than typical PC work.)

Apple really needs a real file system for larger drives on their platforms.

Looking forward to upgrading to the latest version of Solaris 10 with the additional Flash L2ARC support!!!

#4 David (Homepage) on 2009-10-27 21:54 (Reply)

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