Noël,
To try and get regular use out of ZFS on OS X I moved all of my
Music directory a mirrored pool implemented as a slice of my internal
disk and a FW enclosure.
There are a few issues I see in using ZFS for end user applications
at the moment.
1) Trash doesn't work
You adding files to the trash seems to work but you
can't empty it without manually going to the .Trashes
directory and manually removing files
2) You can't download new iTunes Store music through iTunes
iTunes can download podcasts and add new music from
local files even using the consolidate music option
3) It was somewhat prone to causing panics
mainly bringing devices back online or rudely disconnecting
them
4) once the kext is loaded it appears that any user can perform any
action e.g. anybody can create or delete a snapshot or a pool
Shawn
On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Noël Dellofano wrote:
>> As soon as I get in to work and can backup my sparsebundle to a spare
>> MBP, I'm going to start banging on it.
>
> Sweet deal :)
>
>> So, do you have all of /Users on zfs, just one account, have you
>> tried
>> a FileVaulted account too? Or is that just crazy talk? :-)
>
> I currently just have one account, my personal one, to use ZFS. Then
> I just have another local admin account that uses HFS+ that I don't
> really use for anything except occasional testing. In my current
> setup, I created a pool, and I have 2 filesystems in it, one of which
> is my home directory. Then I just created my account and pointed it
> to use that directory for my home dir.
> I haven't experimented with File Vault yet at all, so feel free to
> have at it. Hopefully when we get encryption for ZFS then we'll be
> able to just offer it natively that way.
>
> Noel
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Joe Block wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the pointer. I had just checked ADC for a new download
>> this
>> morning, actually.
>>
>> As soon as I get in to work and can backup my sparsebundle to a spare
>> MBP, I'm going to start banging on it.
>>
>> So, do you have all of /Users on zfs, just one account, have you
>> tried
>> a FileVaulted account too? Or is that just crazy talk? :-)
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2008 2:09 PM, Noël Dellofano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> This is just a quick announcement to say that the ZFS on OS X port
>>> is
>>> now posted for your viewing fun at:
>>>
>>> http://zfs.macosforge.org/
>>>
>>> The page is also linked off of the ZFS Open Solaris page under "ZFS
>>> Ports":
>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/
>>>
>>> This page holds the status for the ZFS on OSX port and includes a
>>> small FAQ, some known bugs, announcements, and will include more as
>>> time goes on. It also holds the latest source code and binaries
>>> that
>>> you can download to your hearts content. So if you have a Mac, are
>>> running Leopard, and are feeling bleeding edge please try it out.
>>> Comments, questions, suggestions and feedback are all very welcome.
>>> I also want to point out this is BETA. We're still working on
>>> getting
>>> some features going, as well as fleshing out issues with Finder,
>>> Disk
>>> Util, iTunes, and other parts of the system. So when I say
>>> bleeding,
>>> I'm not kidding :) However I'm excited to say that I'm happily
>>> running ZFS as my home directory on my MacBook Pro which is what I
>>> work off of every day, and am running weekly snapshots which I 'zfs
>>> send' to my external drive. Oh happy day.
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>> Noel Dellofano
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Macintosh System Administrator
>> +1.650.253.7264
>>
>> Information is the currency of democracy.
>> -Thomas Jefferson
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