ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available 251. Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 12, 2008 @09:12PM from the go-ahead-make-a-really-big-file-system dept. Nezmar writes 'Noel Dellofano, who is part of the ZFS development team at Apple, has a post on Mac OS Forge announcing a. My personal ZFS on macOS instructions and scripts. Contribute to spl/zfs-on-mac development by creating an account on GitHub.

Right, Leventhal mentions that such an eventuality was one in a group of several considerations, but clearly does not think it was the primary factor.

From the paragraph following your quote:

> Finally and perhaps most significantly, personal egos and NIH (not invented here) syndrome certainly played a part. [..] [C]ertain leads and managers preferred to build their own rather adopting external technology—even technology that was best of breed. They pitched their own project, an Apple project, that would bring modern filesystem technologies to Mac OS X.

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> Licensing FUD was thrown into the mix; even today folks at Apple see the ZFS license as nefarious and toxic in some way whereas the DTrace license works just fine for them. Note that both use the same license with the same grants and same restrictions.

Leventhal's chronology continues to suggest that ZFS on OS X re-emerged even after this licensing argument had been advanced, and that the project was finally killed by Larry Ellison himself, in the interest of keeping his personal friendship with Steve Jobs unaffected by business considerations.

Lg ultrawide macbook pro. While it is of course possible that Apple is willing to accept any 'murkiness' around the license as it pertains to DTrace but not willing to do so as it pertains to ZFS, it just doesn't seem like your original statement that 'they had to drop the whole thing because of the murky licensing on ZFS' represents the situation clearly (at least not if we accept the version of events as told by Adam Leventhal; personally, I have no direct knowledge).