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They announced support for it, not that it was the new default. Big difference. ZFS support made sense for Mac OS X Server back in 2007. It's a beefy server fi
by msbarnett 12y ago
They announced support for it, not that it was the new default. Big difference.
ZFS support made sense for Mac OS X Server back in 2007. It's a beefy server filesystem that rewards beefy servers with gobs of ECC RAM, RAID, and no battery to worry about.
ZFS as default replacement for all of Apple's HFS+ usecases (laptops, iPods, phones and tablets in the works) made no sense in 2007 and makes no sense in 2014. ZFS is simply too resource intensive and too dependent on ECC RAM even now for consumer use cases.