Gabriele Bulfon <gbul...@sonicle.com> wrote:
> We should not forget that Larry & Steve are said to be old time friends.
> Apple showed great interest on ZFS (as any other OS vendor, be it interest or
> envy). Who knows what caused the decision to drop it? Maybe Steve was aware
> of next Solaris happenings?
>
> I see no other reason why any OS vendor would drop such an amazing technology.
I've talked to a person who was invited by Apple to the private ZFS
demonstration some time ago. At that time, Mac OS X would immediately panic
once ZFS was mounted R/W. It is not a simple task, to include filesystem code
that was designed for a single-context kernel into a multi-context kernel OS
like Mac OS X.
The other problem was that Apple wantet ZFS for free plus a legal
indemnification on patent lawsuits.
Jörg
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