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June 13, 2007

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ZFS on OS X: Look, but don’t touch

Posted Jun. 13, ’07, 3:27 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Geekery

carzfs.jpgTo be honest, I just wanted a chance to reuse that lovely graphic I whipped up in Photoshop. Isn’t that nice? I crack me up.

So by this point, ZFS and Leopard have been on-again off-again more times than that really famous guy and his famous girlfriend. You know who I mean. Yesterday, Information Week reported that ZFS was not to be in Leopard—but it turns out that wasn’t quite true. Apple contacted them and offered the following clarification:

ZFS “is only available a read-only option from the command line,” according to an Apple spokesperson.

In a follow-up interview today, Croll explained, “ZFS is not the default file system for Leopard. We are exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage. As a result, we have included ZFS — a read-only copy of ZFS — in Leopard.”

“Read-only means that at a later date, if there are ZFS volumes, those systems would be able to read ZFS volumes,” Croll added. “You cannot write data into the system. It will allow you to read ZFS volumes later.”

Oh, that minxy ZFS is playing hard to get. Man, I thought I was done with the coquettish file systems after I got burned by NTFS.

Anyways, there is still some suggestion that ZFS is available through OS X’s Disk Utility, but apparently Sun hasn’t even gotten their own OS, Solaris, to run with ZFS as a boot disk, so I guess the future will just have to wait.


1 Comments

Jack said:

The future ain't what it used to be.

June 13, 2007 4:31 PM

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