On 9-Jan-08, at 10:26 PM, Noël Dellofano wrote: > As I mentioned, ZFS is still BETA, so there are (and likely will be) > some issues turn up with compatibility with the upper layers of the > system if that's what you're referring to.
Two potential areas come immediately to mind - case sensitivity (HFS+ was traditionally not), and resource forks (UFS dispensed with them). I never ran an OS X system on UFS myself, but it's not surprising that some parts of the system/applications chafed at a case sensitive, data fork fs, although Apple does support it. --Toby > But we're working hard on > fixing these as they come up. So end goal is there shouldn't be any > weird compatibility issues with the rest system. > > Noel > > On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Scott Laird wrote: > >> On Jan 9, 2008 11:26 AM, Noël Dellofano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >> >> So Leopard is able to use ZFS without any of the weird compatibility >> problems that used to plague UFS users? >> >> >> Scott > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
