Is OS X Leopard Getting ZFS Or Not?

Whew, this is the story that will not die! We’ve posted a few times about the possible inclusion of Sun’ Zettabyte File System in Leopard, which was easy to believe since the CEO of Sun himself said that would be the case. Then we heard that he was wrong, which was also easy to believe since Steve Jobs didn’t mention it in his keynote on Monday.

So what is it going to be? ZFS is in Leopard, but it’s for diagnostic means only, not as a bootable system. What that means in the grand scheme of things is… most people will never deal with it, and those who do, have nothing to be excited about.

An IW reader claims to have accessed the system through Disk Utility’s Erase menu, and states that “ZFS is only available on non-boot drives on Sun systems, so this is also the case for Leopard” — seemingly reinforcing Croll’s later assertion that Apple is really only “exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage.”

Source: Engadget