ZFS support falls off of Snow Leopard Server's feature list?
Various Mac OS X Server lists noted on Tuesday morning that support for ZFS is gone from Apple's public feature lists, including the previous command line option.
James Relph noted the change:
Looks like it's gone, someone noticed on the zfs macosforge list http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki last night and I can't find any confirmation of it's continued existence in Snow Leopard Server apart from a few (presumably out of date) mentions on non-US Apple sites. From what I've heard it's not even going to be there as an included CLI option, but I've not seen anything official.
A number of readers were concerned about Apple's plans for a next-generation file system, such as Dave Pooser, manager of information services at Alford Media.
> If by 'quasi-skeptical,' that I don¹t view it as magical, and >perfect for every possible use, then yes. I am. It is a good tool, >but it¹s not the second coming of the PonyCorn.
Everything has tradeoffs. ZFS trades off processor utilization and disk space for data integrity. For file servers/ database servers/ email servers, and for many workstations, that's PonyCorntacular. And when you look at how far behind state of the art HFS+ has fallen, Apple really needs to start delivering on some sort of next-gen filesystem pretty darn soon.
I'll put a call into Apple about ZFS in Snow Leopard Server and will post an update if the story changes.