"It's also GPL — never going to happen for that reason alone"
If SGI has the copyright, they can still relicense it for use under OSX. I don't think Rackable would block this idea.
SGI has the full copyright to the version they initially released, but modern XFS has spent 8 years getting integrated into Linux by many independent contributors.
As a longtime XFS user, I can tell you that it has pathological problems when used anywhere near a user's desktop: unlinking is abysmally slow (and even worse under rm -R). It also has a habit of delaying flush for way too long, both using up piles of kernel memory and making itself extremely vulnerable to power loss.