On 29/04/2011, at 2:16, Malcolm Waltz wrote: > I doubt the issues you are encountering have much to do with ZFS. > > It sounds like you are using TimeMachine over NFS. Obviously, Apple does not > support that configuration: > http://www.google.com/search?q=time+machine+nfs+site:apple.com > > In my opinion, TimeMachine should only be used with block storage. If you > use any kind of file-sharing protocol (AFP, SMB/CIFS or NFS), TimeMachine is > implemented using a sparse disk image broken into hundreds or thousands of > separate files. This is a hack at best. > > Time machine works very well with locally attached storage, but if you need > to use network storage, you might want to try iSCSI: > http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/using-zfs-with-apple-time-machine.html > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/iscsi/iscsi.txt
Hmm, I _am_ using AFPD, not NFS for this.. I will see about using an ISCSI disk image instead (although that would make it impossible to resize once it's created right?) I see that the sparse disk image does use ~80000 files in a single directory which does take.. a while.. to stat.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ 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"
