June 9th, 2009
ZFS support falls off of Snow Leopard Server's feature list?
Various Mac OS X Server lists noted on Tuesday morning that support for ZFS is gone from Apple’s public feature lists, including the previous command line option.
James Relph noted the change:
Looks like it’s gone, someone noticed on the zfs macosforge list http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki last night and I can’t find any confirmation of it’s continued existence in Snow Leopard Server apart from a few (presumably out of date) mentions on non-US Apple sites. From what I’ve heard it’s not even going to be there as an included CLI option, but I’ve not seen anything official.
A number of readers were concerned about Apple’s plans for a next-generation file system, such as Dave Pooser, manager of information services at Alford Media.
> If by ‘quasi-skeptical,’ that I don¹t view it as magical, and
>perfect for every possible use, then yes. I am. It is a good tool,
>but it¹s not the second coming of the PonyCorn.Everything has tradeoffs. ZFS trades off processor utilization and disk space for data integrity. For file servers/ database servers/ email servers, and for many workstations, that’s PonyCorntacular. And when you look at how far behind state of the art HFS+ has fallen, Apple really needs to start delivering on some sort of next-gen filesystem pretty darn soon.
I’ll put a call into Apple about ZFS in Snow Leopard Server and will post an update if the story changes.
David Morgenstern has covered the Mac market and other technology segments for 20 years. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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