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MacDailyNews: Apple discontinues ZFS project, turns attention to own next-gen file system
Engadget: ZFS open source project abruptly shuts down, Snow Leopard weeps icy tears
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk: Apple abandons plans to use Sun's ZFS file system: so what's next?
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RT @stainless: http://zfs.macosforge.org/ The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortl 11/5/2009 |
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http://zfs.macosforge.org/ The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. 11/5/2009 |
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@andreisavu ZFS Project Shutdown: http://bit.ly/Q82oq 11/3/2009 |
Apple discontinues ZFS project, turns attention to own next-gen file system
MacDailyNews —
... Apple has posted a notice on their ZFS open source site that states: The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. One reason for dropping ZFS could be due to licensing problems with Sun who was recently acquired by Oracle, but isn't Larry Steve's goo buddy? Daring Fireball's John Gruber writes that the real reason could be the " ...
ZFS open source project abruptly shuts down, Snow Leopard weeps icy tears
Engadget —
... The on-again / off-again love affair between Apple and ZFS seems to be all but over, with a brief but potent message on the Mac OS Forge project site stating the following: "The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository ...
Apple abandons plans to use Sun's ZFS file system: so what's next?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... However others thought that ZFS support would be included in Mac OSX 10.5 ("Leopard") when it came out in 2007; or that it would be in the more recent 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"). But it didn't. Last week, a terse notice on the ZFS site at Mac OS Forge noted that "the ZFS project [on Mac] has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly." ...
Mac port of ZFS discontinued
Macworld —
... Many bleeding-edge Mac geeks are mourning the death of the project to implement the ZFS filesystem on the Mac . The Apple-backed project to port ZFS to the Mac has been officially discontinued, apparently ...
Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up
OStatic blogs —
... In like a lion, out like a Snow Leopard? Apple changed its spots on Sun's ZFS fairly quickly. This week the company shutterd the ZFS Project on Mac OS Forge, and there's no hide or hair of ZFS to be found in Snow Leopard. It's a pretty quick turnabout from a few years ago, when ...
Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... In like a lion, out like a Snow Leopard? Apple changed its spots on Sun's ZFS fairly quickly. This week the company shutterd the ZFS Project on Mac OS Forge, and there's no hide or hair of ZFS to be found in Snow Leopard. It's a pretty quick turnabout from a few years ago, when ...
