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I remember reading back in 2007-2008 that Apple was interested in bringing ZFS support to Mac OS X, but discussions ended once Oracle purchased Sun. This was a
by linguae 2y ago
I remember reading back in 2007-2008 that Apple was interested in bringing ZFS support to Mac OS X, but discussions ended once Oracle purchased Sun. This was a bummer; I would’ve loved ZFS on a Mac.
After a cursory Google search, I found this article:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/zfs-on-snow-leopard-forget-about-it/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/zfs-on-snow-leopard-forget-abo...
- Lammy 2y agoThere were a couple of (iirc read-only) beta ZFS PKGs from Apple in the 10.5 era: https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/looking-zfs-beta-seeds-ye-olde-leopard-days https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/looking-zfs-beta-seeds-ye-...
- leoh 2y agoKind of surprising that the Oracle deal would have killed it given that Jobs and Ellison were such close friends.
- krger 2y agoThey were probably close friends because they weren't business competitors.
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoEllison didn't make enough money to buy an island (okay, 80% of one) by being "friends" with anyone :)