[geeks] ZFS in OSX

[Jeremy Grosser]

I stand corrected. I should have read Slashdot before replying.  
Apparently the latest Leopard seed has ZFS support.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/18/1155226
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Jeremy Grosser
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On Dec 18, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Jeremy Grosser wrote:

> 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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