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> However, considering the fact that the creator of BFS is an Apple employee, I could totally envision them creating their own from scratch.

Dominic has been working at Apple since 2002. I'm guessing if they wanted a new filesystem they'd have tapped him quite a long time ago.

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They didn't want to make a new file system for a while, when they were going after ZFS, but that has fallen through. And anyway, all he saying is that they definitely could make their own, which is true.

Apple's interest in ZFS started in 2006. He'd already been at Apple for 4 years by then.

True but they probably had other fish to fry when he started. As I recall, he worked a lot on Mac OS X's expanding use of metadata search and extended file attributes.

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