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Re:Apple File System by watersb on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:24PM (#11898235)
Yes. I was a heavy user of ZFS on Mac OS X back then. Was on the developer mailing list for that implentation, submitting bugs and talking to Apple developers working like mad to ship it.

Then Steve Jobs' buddy Larry bought Sun, and licensing of ZFS became basically impossible to sort out on time. So they dropped it.

Was that 2007 or 2009?

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Re:Apple File System by rangibaby on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:30PM (#11899554)
2009. I remember ZFS was coming in Snow Leopard. Then it wasn't

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https://web.archive.org/web/20080721031014/http://www.apple....

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Re:Apple File System by ahl on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:56PM (#11898760)
The Sun acquisition was announced in 2009 and closed in 2010. It may have been related, but I have my own suspicions about about what caused Apple to jettison their port.
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Re:Apple File System by astrodust on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:39PM (#11899408)
Given the mountain of legal shit Google has been subjected to over Java, the last thing Apple wanted was to have to answer to Larry's lawyers. ZFS, awesome as it is, has been poisoned.
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Re:Apple File System by wmf on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:26PM (#11899537)
It's like no one here remembers the NetApp lawsuit.
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Re:Apple File System by rafaelferreira on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:02PM (#11899262)
Do tell.
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Re:Apple File System by saithier on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @08:35PM (#11906468)
The thing that killed ZFS on the Mac was the NetApp lawsuit over it against Sun.
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