Comment by wpm

2 days ago

Note that this isn't too long after Apple abandoned efforts to bring ZFS into Mac OS X as a potential default filesystem. Patents were probably a good reason, given the Oracle buyout of Sun, but also a bit of "skating to where the puck will be" and realizing that the spinning rust ZFS was built for probably wasn't going to be in their computers for much longer.

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throw0101c  2 days ago

> Patents were probably a good reason, given the Oracle buyout of Sun

There is no reason to speculate as the reason is know (as stated by Jeff Bonwick, one of the co-inventors of ZFS):

>> Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it (like they did with DTrace), but it may be that they wanted a "private license" from Sun (with appropriate technical support and indemnification), and the two entities couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms.

> I cannot disclose details, but that is the essence of it.

* https://archive.is/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs...

* https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mail.opensolaris.org/pi...

kjkjadksj  2 days ago

More evidence they thought hdds were on their way out was the unibody macbook keynote. They made a big deal about how the user can access their hdd from the latch on the bottom without any tools as they said ssd was on the horizon.