Apple has apparently released a developer preview of Read/Write ZFS for Leopard. Excellent news.
But I’m still disappointed we won’t see R/W capability in the 1.5.0 release. Typically, it’s the first release DVD that one uses for installations – having ZFS unavailable in the DVD will preclude formatting the boot volume as ZFS without resorting to prior disk-swapping tricks from a working install. Assuming that booting from ZFS is supported in a future point release, which seems reasonable, we’ll have to wait for an updated boot DVD before we can cast HFS+ out for good.
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