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Remember when Apple announced that ZFS would be the new filesystem for Mac OS? Oh well.

sneak 4y ago
Everyone wanted that but it failed due to a failure to reach licensing terms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852019 Apple's not big on f/oss. They maintain their hardware moat (historically) by differentiating with extremely proprietary software.
- throw0101b 4y ago
  From one of the co-creators of ZFS: > 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. * https://web.archive.org/web/20121221111757/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-October/033125.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121221111757/http://mail.opens... * https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-on-mac-os-x-project-over-licensing-issues/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-o...
Someone 4y ago
> Remember when Apple announced that ZFS would be the new filesystem for Mac OS? I don’t. They worked on ZFS, even released read only support, and some people think they came close to making such an announcement (e.g. http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/) but I don’t think they ever made any statement that ZFS would be the replacement for HFS+.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y ago
  https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-zfs-on-snow-leopard/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-zfs-on-snow-le... https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/07/apple_using_zfs_in_leopard/ https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/07/apple_using_zfs_in_le... https://sdtimes.com/apfs/apple-quietly-announces-new-file-system/ https://sdtimes.com/apfs/apple-quietly-announces-new-file-sy... https://osxdaily.com/2007/06/12/now-apple-wont-use-zfs-as-the-leopard-file-system/ https://osxdaily.com/2007/06/12/now-apple-wont-use-zfs-as-th...

Everyone wanted that but it failed due to a failure to reach licensing terms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852019 Apple's not big on f/oss. They maintain their hardware moat (historically) by differentiating with extremely proprietary software.

throw0101b 4y ago
From one of the co-creators of ZFS: > 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. * https://web.archive.org/web/20121221111757/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2009-October/033125.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121221111757/http://mail.opens... * https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-on-mac-os-x-project-over-licensing-issues/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-o...

Someone 4y ago

> Remember when Apple announced that ZFS would be the new filesystem for Mac OS? I don’t. They worked on ZFS, even released read only support, and some people think they came close to making such an announcement (e.g. http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/) but I don’t think they ever made any statement that ZFS would be the replacement for HFS+.

ShadowBanThis01 4y ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-zfs-on-snow-leopard/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-announces-zfs-on-snow-le... https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/07/apple_using_zfs_in_leopard/ https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/07/apple_using_zfs_in_le... https://sdtimes.com/apfs/apple-quietly-announces-new-file-system/ https://sdtimes.com/apfs/apple-quietly-announces-new-file-sy... https://osxdaily.com/2007/06/12/now-apple-wont-use-zfs-as-the-leopard-file-system/ https://osxdaily.com/2007/06/12/now-apple-wont-use-zfs-as-th...