Leopard May Be ZFS-free || The Mac Observer:A few days before Steve Jobs’s World Wide Developer Conference keynote on Monday, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Apple would transition to his ZFS file system with Mac OS X 10.5. That announcement never came, and now Apple’s senior director of product marketing for Mac OS, Brian Croll, is claiming that Leopard will stick with HFS+, according to InformationWeek.So how do you reconcile the premise made in the post by Robin Harris of ZDNet Storage Bit Blog with no ZFS file system in Leopard. Perhaps it’s a matter of timing…not Leopard, but the next OS X version 10.6 that will utilize ZFS.
You’re Apple, Inc. You have a new kick-butt file system, ZFS, that blows away Microsoft’s aging NTFS and complements see-and-gotta-have storage tools like Time Machine.And maybe, you’d like to add the world’s Windows users to your total available market…. Except now Apple has a better way.A way that can change Windows file systems to Mac file systems.According to a patent filed by smart Apple engineers Greg Marriott and David Shayer, Apple can do that. (I heard about the patent from Greg Keizer.)One problem I see with this premise is that so far there’s no confirmation of OS X using the ZFS file system, only that statement by the Sun official.
I’ve watched many of his Apple addresses these last few years and for this one he looked like he was just going through the motions…. It’s nice that the iPhone will support ajax applications via it’s built-in Safari browser but it severely handicaps most applications and developers…. Couldn’t Apple at least make some announcement about a future hardware product?So here I set today, more then a little disappointed about the whole thing.
