ZFS project for Mac OS X discontinued

Tragic. Just tragic. I so wanted the replacement of HFS with ZFS to become a reality.

http://applemacintosh.chatango.com/

Talk about all things apple, even ZFS project for Mac OS X discontinued

Well, if not ZFS, then what? HFS+ for the rest of eternity?

Oh no! I've been using ZFS on FreeBSD for a long time now and was really looking forward to seeing it in OSX...
This is really a big loss...

I don't know why Apple does not look at JFS from IBM.

It is simply awesome. I have used in on Linux boxes for years. It is VERY FAST and robust and uses VERY little system resources. On VERY old PC's (e.g. 300 Mhz PII), JFS way outperforms ext3, ReisferFS etc.

http://twitter.com/nomulous

RT @9to5mac: Apple no longer pursuing ZFS as the next generation file system for OSX http://bit.ly/1gYpgZ [Z is so much better than N... :(]

A big loss for sure, but if you want to be able to read/write from a ZFS array do what I did; install FreenNAS (based on FreeBSD) build a ZFS array and have all your storage and backup the way you want it.
http://www.freenas.org/

Heck, combine it with my ($SHAMELESS_PLUG) open source Dropbox clone setup and have all sorts of fun!
http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source-dropbox-clone/

As a fulltime Linux user I was bummed when I learned about how cool ZFS was, knowing that it would never come to Linux (save via FUSE which isn't the same thing), and now that I'm getting a Macbook Pro (that may run Linux most of the time) I'm disappointed again with Apple dropping ZFS! Oh well, just goes to reinforce my belief and love for open source.

This really sucks. I have been looking forward to at least being able to read/write from/to ZFS arrays since before Leopard was released. I don't even care if it isn't bootable since I am mainly a laptop user. ZFS would solve so many issues I have with increasing storage and backup demands. Maybe we can get some OSS love to pick up the project where Apple left off or even support for ZFS via MacFUSE.

Depressing, to be sure. When software patents stifle innovation like this, we as consumers all lose.

I've done a port (at least for myself) so I can can at least access all of the media I had stored on ZFS before Snow Leopard.

http://dustin.github.com/2009/10/23/mac-zfs.html