Yep, these issues are known and I've listed them with explanations on on our website under "The State of the ZFS on OS X World": http://zfs.macosforge.org/
We're working on them. The Trash and iTunes bugs should be fixed soon. The "your non-replicated drive just went MIA" panic will take a little longer as it requires a more complex fix that will need to involve diskutil and friends while also preserving the integrity of your pool and all the data therin. This is also a problem the Solaris ZFS team is working on as well, it's just not as common that people rip out live drives from a Thumper :) Noel On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Shawn Ferry wrote: > 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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> zfs-discuss mailing list >>>> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Macintosh System Administrator >>> +1.650.253.7264 >>> >>> Information is the currency of democracy. >>> -Thomas Jefferson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > -- > Shawn Ferry shawn.ferry at sun.com > Senior Primary Systems Engineer > Sun Managed Operations > 571.291.4898 > > > > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
