arstechnica.com - 10/31/2009
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Ars Technica writes up the end of the potential for Sun's ZFS filesystem to make it into Mac OS X; a licensing dispute appears to be at the heart. ZFS is far more flexible than any other filesystem in wide-scale use, something like RAID with less management and more choices. With ZFS out of the ...
modmyi.com - 10/24/2009
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modmyi.com —
Image via TechGuru In what came as a
surprise to many, official word was issued last night...
confirming the end of Apple's ZFS open source project - an advanced file system developed by Sun that was ported to Mac OS X and released as an open source project on Apple's Mac OS Forge ...
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Apple Terminates ZFS Open Source Project
mail.opensolaris.org - 10/25/2009
tuaw.com - 10/24/2009
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tuaw.com —
Is it a forgotten project? A fit of
open-source pique? Or is it just that everyone got...
really busy on other stuff? Looks like Apple has just shut down the ZFS project for Mac OS X. The site for the project on Mac OS Forge reads: ZFS Project ...
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ZFS project for Mac OS X discontinued
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Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... Apple, as is usual for the folks in Cupertino, hasn't issued a comment about its reasoning for dumping ZFS. The speculation is that it has something to do with Oracle's pending acquision of Sun. Licensing issues have also been cited. Whatever the reason, Apple's not going to be supplying ZFS to the Mac faithful past Leopard. ...
Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up
OStatic blogs —
... Apple, as is usual for the folks in Cupertino, hasn't issued a comment about its reasoning for dumping ZFS. The speculation is that it has something to do with Oracle's pending acquision of Sun. Licensing issues have also been cited. Whatever the reason, Apple's not going to be supplying ZFS to the Mac faithful past Leopard. ...
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The question is why?
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Apple shuts down ZFS open source project
appleinsider.com 10/24/2009 — Apple's efforts to support the development of ZFS, an advanced file system originally created by Sun, were officially terminated today in a notice posted by MacOS Forge.
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appleinsider.com 10/28/2009 — While Appleinsider predicted the arrival of a new dual-drive, optical-free Mac mini, Apple managed keep secret its plans to introduce a new Mac mini server bundle up to its relatively subtle launch this week. Now the company faces the task of ...
Slashdot Hardware Story | Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS
hardware.slashdot.org 6/10/2009 — Roskolnikov writes "Apple has apparently decided that ZFS isn't really ready for prime time. We've been discussing Apple/ZFS rumors , denials , and sightings for some years now. Currently a search on Apple's site for ZFS yields only two hits, one of ...
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