ZFS volumes (zvol s) can definitely be resized using the volsize property: # zfs get volsize mypool/myvol NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE mypool/myvol volsize 2G - # zfs set volsize=4g mypool/myvol
Mac OS 10.5 and later allows you to resize Journaled HFS+ volumes (using diskutil or Disk Utility.app). Doing a quick google search, I see plenty of references to decreasing the size of a TimeMachine volume, so it's probably possible to increase it as well. I'm sure you can find more with a little googleing. "man diskutil" (look for resizeVolume) indicates that you can increase and decrease the size and doesn't mention anything special about Time Machine. On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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"
