> This would no doubt drive higher warranty costs for Apple and cause consumer dissatisfaction. I suspect the decision not to use ZFS was (assuming it wasn't s

> This would no doubt drive higher warranty costs for Apple and cause consumer dissatisfaction. I suspect the decision not to use ZFS was (assuming it wasn't simply spite at Sun pre-empting Jobs' announcement) that it would cause dissatisfaction, but from a different direction: ZFS was designed for Sun's customers: companies employing dedicated sysadmins. ZFS was incredibly unfriendly back when Apple would have been evaluating it. User experiences like "you filled up your filesystem? Oh well, you'll have to reformat and restore from backup." may be acceptable in an enterprisey setting, but aren't going to cut it with the iMac crowd.