Sun Microsystems CEO, Jonathan Schwartz has spilled the beans on the status of ZFS in Leopard. The CEO announced that Apple would announce plans to reveal ZFS as the default file system in Mac OS X Leopard.

“In fact, this week you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10,” spoke the CEO. (Real Player Video Link)

Rumours of ZFS in OS X first began in April 2006 when a OpenSolaris mailing list mentioned porting the file system to Mac OS X.

World of Apple then exclusively reported an appearance of ZFS in builds of OS X 10.5.