I am using TM over smb on a ZFS Raidz1 pool of my fileserver with no problems whatsoever.
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT tank/apple 37.2G 82.8G 37.2G /tank/apple Oldest backup 14 December 2009 On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Does anyone else use ZFS to store TM backups? > > > > I find that whenever my laptop (over wifi!) starts a TM the ZFS machine > it's backing up to grinds to a halt.. Other systems streaming stuff over NFS > from it also tend to stall.. > > > > I presume that TM is doing something which causes ZFS some issues but I'm > not sure how to find out what the real problem is let alone how to fix it.. > > > Caveat: Time Machine is a viable backup system, but you're outside the > configurations which it supports. > > TM really wants the backup to be located on an HFS+ filesystem because it > makes very extensive use of hard links-- including hard links to > directories-- which are not widely supported by other Unix filesystems. > Even if you choose to continue using ZFS storage, please note that you'll > obtain significantly better results by using AFP instead of NFS filesharing. > > Wikipedia has useful info here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_%28Mac_OS%29 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net <http://www.aisecure.net> _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
