Things Removed in Snow Leopard

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18 points·blasdel··6 comments

More on the ZFS situation http://storagemojo.com/2009/08/31/why-did-apple-drop-zfs/

Sun wrote the CDDL to be intentionally incompatible with the GPL, and a lot of the motivation for that came directly from engineers working on Solaris who were opposed to their work being copylefted.

btrfs is awesome and stands to completely eclipse ZFS -- but don't pretend for a second that it ain't provincial. It's designed directly for Linux's powerful VFS layer and would be a bitch to port elsewhere.

I can't believe they removed creator code support deliberately. What the hell were they thinking?

Or is the better question: What the hell were they drinking?

All of these lists leave out the only one that matters to me: ZFS

ZFS wasn't removed -- it was never added.

ZFS certainly was in Leopard, though crippled in a couple of ways.

The ZFS builds from macosforge had some degree of Apple support but that was not official, if that's what you're thinking.

A lot of development went on inside of Apple for having ZFS work, but it's seemingly stopped without any official word. For a while, it was server only (though I find it extremely useful on every day machines).

Ironically, the company with the famous 1984 ad has very aggressively been removing links like this from their site:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:n4KSNLxIxtEJ:developer....

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:wJnNvaB52NsJ:developer....

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:8YjVIC0ZHfUJ:www.apple....

These still mention ZFS (one on snow leopard):

http://www.apple.com/uk/xserve/specs.html https://support.apple.com/specs/xserve/Xserve_Early_2008.htm...

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:yajtUrN1i8IJ:images.app...

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