From a practical perspective, what affect will this have on Mac users and the growth of the Mac community?
I'm not sure, really.
The effect on me (and probably others) was mostly one of surprise. ZFS was initially rumored to arrive in 10.5 i think... but it never materialized. One advantage of ZFS was supposed be even fewer data loss issues due to filesystem corruption (i think), so that part sounded real good.
It was just weird because a lot of folks got all psyched up waiting for it to get here (helped along by a few pages at apple.com over the past 2 years or so), and then this week: POOF... all gone.
Reminds me a bit of
OpenDoc.
