Should have paid Oracle and just put ZFS on OS X.

alwillis · on Feb 17, 2018

Apple killed ZFS on macOS nearly 10 years ago. It wouldn’t make sense on a watch or a phone anyway: http://www.zdnet.com/article/mac-zfs-is-dead-rip/

gigatexal · on Feb 18, 2018

200B in the bank and they couldn’t find a way to port it to other platforms? I think they could.

alwillis · on Feb 18, 2018

It’s not about not being able to port it; it’s not the right tool for the job. ZFS is a file system designed for servers; the Apple Watch, Apple TV and the iPhone and iPad aren’t servers.

STRML · on Feb 18, 2018

That doesn't mean it can't be adapted and tuned for mobile. The average smartwatch has more processing power than the average server did at the time the ZFS project was launched (2001).

gigatexal · on Feb 19, 2018

+1 to that. Or at least some subset that speaks the ZFS-protocol if such a thing exists.