ZFS finally debuts in Snow Leopard

Seth Weintraub
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June 10, 2008
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We've been talking about it for years.  Finally, Apple has some rock solid plans to introduce ZFS into the MacOSX operating system.  As of now, plans are for Snow Leopard server to allow read/write capabilities for ZFS.  No word yet if it will operate as a boot partition or not.  Snow Leopard Server is supposed to debut with it's client counterpart in about 1 year according to Apple.  Developers are being shown a preview this week at Apple's WWDC.

No word on whether this technology will be available to current Leopard Server users.

Comments (3)

bob (not verified) | June 10, 2008 - 4:08am

snow leopard is looking like a refreshing change, looking forward to everyone taking advantage of my mac pros eight cores and gfx card

occamsrazor (not verified) | June 10, 2008 - 4:37am

ZFS... bring it on... I'm really looking forward to obtaining some of the benefits of ZFS, which from what I can see is quite a remarkable filesystem. But I wonder how long it will take to come to OS X Client, not Server, as that will affect how widely it is supported and adopted...

Jon (not verified) | June 10, 2008 - 8:20am

In a few years Apple might just have serious chunk of the server market with this.