Jonathan Schwartz, Sun CEO, announces ZFS will become ‘the’ file system in Leopard.
Kickass.
Update: If, as Gruber points out, Schwartz just said “‘a’ file system” instead of “‘the’ file system”, this just confirms what we already know, that ZFS will be supported as a regular file system, like FAT32, UFS and NTFS at the reading level. If ZFS is however, ‘the’ file system, it’ll also be supported as a bootable file system. This is much more interesting since ZFS rocks a great deal and does away with a lot of the partition soup people like me have to deal with.
Update II: Schwartz did say ‘the’.
Update III: In no uncertain terms, Marc Hamilton, VP for Solaris marketing, spells it out: “Jonathan noted that Apple will announce this week that the ZFS file system from OpenSolaris will become Apple’s new default file system. So how does that help Sun? It is pretty simple, now every Apple developer will know ZFS and how to use it on products like our SunFire x4500 storage server and other Sun products.” [Emphasis mine.]