It's happening, sort of

Last week, Sun's CEO revealed an Apple secret in advance of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.

When I reported on this unusual act of stealing Apple's thunder, I wondered how Steve would react.
It looks like Jonathan was plain wrong about Apple using Sun's Zettabyte File System in the next version of its OS, code-named Leopard, because this week Apple flatly said it's not happening. So what was Jonathan talking about? Will ZFS become part of some future OS X? Is a puzzlement.
Update 6/13: According to Engadget and other sources, Apple will support ZFS in Leopard, but just read-only on non-boot drives. Mac app developers who are already using it already know this. As one Engadget commenter put it, it uses it, but it doesn't inhale.

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