Michael Dolan Dot Com

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

InformationWeek: “Apple Says No Sun File System For Leopard”

UPDATE (courtesy of Stephen O’Grady) looks like ZFS is not completely out, but not exactly in either: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903525

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

Certainly not “Mac-like”…

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Executives pre-announcing other companies’ product features is never a good thing… seems to have backfired on Mr. Schwartz…

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903281

During an interview with InformationWeek, Brian Croll, senior director of product marketing for the Mac OS, said, “ZFS is not happening,” when asked whether Sun’s Zettabyte File System would be in Leopard. Instead, Leopard would use Apple’s current hierarchical file system, called HFS+.