It appears that Leopard will probably not support the ZFS file system.
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.
The fact is, only Apple knows the truth on this. Everything else is rumor or conjecture. :-)
UPDATE 06/11/07:
Via C/Net News:
Apple has clarified reports regarding the use of Sun’s ZFS file system in Leopard, confirming that ZFS is present in the operating system but that Apple has not yet made it the default file system.
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