On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) < opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> Anybody using maczfs / ZEVO? Have good or bad things to say, in terms > of reliability, performance, features?**** > > ** ** > > My main reason for asking is this: I have a mac, I use Time Machine, and > I have VM's inside. Time Machine, while great in general, has the > limitation of being unable to intelligently identify changed bits inside a > VM file. So you have to exclude the VM from Time Machine, and you have to > run backup software inside the VM. **** > > ** ** > > I would greatly prefer, if it's reliable, to let the VM reside on ZFS and > use zfs send to backup my guest VM's.**** > > ** ** > > I am not looking to replace HFS+ as the primary filesystem of the mac; > although that would be cool, there's often a reliability benefit to staying > on the supported, beaten path, standard configuration. But if ZFS can be > used to hold the guest VM storage reliably, I would benefit from that.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks...**** > > I have a few coworkers using it. No horror stories and it's been in use about 6 months now. If there were any showstoppers I'm sure I'd have heard loud complaints by now :) --Tim
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