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Yes. I was a heavy user of ZFS on Mac OS X back then. Was on the developer mailing list for that implentation, submitting bugs and talking to Apple developers w

by watersb 10y ago

Yes. I was a heavy user of ZFS on Mac OS X back then. Was on the developer mailing list for that implentation, submitting bugs and talking to Apple developers working like mad to ship it. Then Steve Jobs' buddy Larry bought Sun, and licensing of ZFS became basically impossible to sort out on time. So they dropped it. Was that 2007 or 2009?

ahl 10y ago
The Sun acquisition was announced in 2009 and closed in 2010. It may have been related, but I have my own suspicions about about what caused Apple to jettison their port.
- rafaelferreira 10y ago
  Do tell.
- astrodust 10y ago
  Given the mountain of legal shit Google has been subjected to over Java, the last thing Apple wanted was to have to answer to Larry's lawyers. ZFS, awesome as it is, has been poisoned.
- wmf 10y ago
  It's like no one here remembers the NetApp lawsuit.
rangibaby 10y ago
2009. I remember ZFS was coming in Snow Leopard. Then it wasn't /edit https://web.archive.org/web/20080721031014/http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/snowleopard/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080721031014/http://www.apple....
saithier 10y ago
The thing that killed ZFS on the Mac was the NetApp lawsuit over it against Sun.