zslg01 wrote:Given :
1. Oracle is de-emphasizing ZFS and pushing btrfs
Nobody has cared about Oracles ZFS since they made it closed-source. So not entirely sure why that matters here, OpenZFS is a separate thing.
zslg01 wrote:2. Apple announced MacOS
Not sure why you list this, there has been 3 major releases of OSX since I started. There is the name rebranding sure, but perhaps they want to leave OS version 10 and move to 11.
zslg01 wrote:3. Apple also announced APFS which has a lot of the features of ZFS
This one is interesting. On one hand, maybe they will finally fix some of the issues in XNU where everything assumes the filesystem is HFS, and that boot is HFS etc. If they bring in a second fs, they will have to make things more modular so we can fit in better.
HFS really needs to be replaced, so this is a good thing. I see it in a positive light.
Now, one of *my* reasons for using ZFS is that is platform independent, btrfs, and apfs are locking you into one platform.