[geeks] ZFS in OSX

[Jeremy Grosser]

No, Apple has not included ZFS in any of the developer builds of  
Leopard up to now, so it is unlikely that we will see ZFS in 10.5. It  
is still possible that they have it working behind closed doors in  
Cupertino.

If you want to work on getting ZFS support in OSX, you might want to  
look at FUSE [1]. Essentially, it is a kernel module that allows you  
to load new filesystems in userspace for Linux/FreeBSD. ZFS has  
already been ported to FUSE [2] though it only works read-only at the  
moment. If FUSE were ported to OSX, we would instantly get support  
for a ton of esoteric and unique filesystems [3].

So, short answer is no, there is currently no support for ZFS in OSX  
either from Apple or a third party, but there are plenty of people  
asking about it, so I'd expect you'll see some form of ZFS on OSX in  
the future.

[1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/
[3] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems
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Jeremy Grosser
synack at csh.rit.edu
www.neohippie.net