On Jan 9, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Noël Dellofano wrote: > 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.
I don't have any non-replicated drives so I never ran into this particular issue. The panics when brining devices online were always for mirrors. I realize that I wasn't clear before. Since the by request only 101 and continuing with the 102A release, I have been able to do rude things to the external portion of my mirrors without experiencing a panic. > 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 :) That was almost the first thing I did when we got one to play with :) > > > 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 -- 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
