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> The rumour is a sun exec let the cat out of the bag about it being the next main filesystem for osx (ie not just support for non root drives) and this annoyed
by lunarlull 1y ago
> The rumour is a sun exec let the cat out of the bag about it being the next main filesystem for osx (ie not just support for non root drives) and this annoyed Jobs so much he canned the whole project.
Very petty if true.
- MBCook 1y agoIt would fit jobs though. That’s one of the famous rumors. As others here have said Oracle bought Sun two years later. Between me increased memory requirements, uncertainty due to Sun’s status as an ongoing concern, and who knows what else maybe it really did make sense not to go forward.
- JCattheATM 1y agoThe ZFS code was already released under the CDDL. What was stopping Apple from writing their own implementation like OpenZFS and FreeBSD, regardless of what happened with Sun?
- kergonath 1y agoAs other also said, there were patent issues around ZFS: https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/NetApp's_filesystem_patents https://wiki.endsoftwarepatents.org/wiki/NetApp's_filesystem...