GreenBytes to Offer Free 'Community Edition' of ZEVO ZFS for Mac

[Riverrun]

As long as they don't fix the System crash when you pull the cord of an external drive it's not a viable solution.
Maybe that was one of the reasons Apple dumped ZFS.
I tried MacZFS a year or so ago, but as soon as I found out that it will crash the system when you unmount a drive without removing the disk from the pool I trashed it.

This is a serious drawback in a file system that is otherwise so promising, a problem that I was not aware of and one that would make me think twice before implementing Zevo on my external storage RAID. On the face of it, it seems like a trivial enough problem to fix and it's not as if the developers lack the talent to do so, it appears that they have already solved much more difficult conundrums. Why not get it working properly?

Perhaps the solution may be out of reach or impossible to implement and could be why Apple dropped it as Justperry said.

Great appraisal of the benefits of ZFS here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ug1qCXvZDg

 

[Kristan]

This is a serious drawback in a file system

That's not a file system limitation, that's a problem with the implementation (and possibly hardware). I have a 11TB raidz setup under a solaris clone (NexentaStor) at home and have physically unplugged drives whilst running switched on and the data is fine. Even if I totally loose a drive there's no issue - a hot-spare takes over, I get an email and I can go and replace the failed drive.

A good ZFS implementation is awesome and the only file system I trust with anything important - failing disks, bitrot, read/write errors etc. scare me too much to not know about them (and be able to fix them).

I'm all for native OSX support for it!

 

[Bubba Satori]

Was it Leopard that was supposed to get ZFS?