Hi guys! What a journey. So with school and work I finally was able to get everything pulled off my ZFS pool and ready to rebuild it.
Except I can't find the developer version... I'm at downloads.maczfs.org and checked current and all downloads and the last release seems to be MacZFS-74.3.3.pkg, which I have installed: collect-maczfs-state.sh v maczfs_74-3-3-68-ga26cd63 Determining system version # uname -a Darwin Jamess-iMac.local 13.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.2.0: Thu Apr 17 23:03:13 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.100.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 Looking for ZFS packages # -v pkgs -sl Found %d packages pkgutil --pkgs | grep -e zfs -e ZFS -e ZEVO -e zevo com.getgreenbytes.community.zfs.pkg com.getgreenbytes.community.ZFSDriver.pkg com.getgreenbytes.community.ZFSFilesystem.pkg org.maczfs.zfs.106.pkg Found 4 packages So where is the developer version? Everything else is marked as depreciated. Please help D: I want to use the latest build experimental or not. I'm going to use this line once I get the new version installed: zpool create -f -O compression=lz4 -O casesensitivity=insensitive -O normalization=formD -O atime=off -o ashift=12 deathstar raidz disk1 disk2 disk3 disk5 Do I need to delete the pool first or format the drives in any way special before doing this? Thanks, James On May 20, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Bjoern Kahl <googlelo...@bjoern-kahl.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi James, > > Am 20.05.14 21:32, schrieb James Hoyt: >> So it sounds like I need to recreate my zpool ... >> >> "Logical Block Size" = 512 "Physical Block Size" = 4096 >> >> So I should use the following command on my next zpool to help >> finder performance and make it compatible for 4k drives? >> >> zfs create -o normalization=formD atime=off murr ashift=12 (let me >> know if I have any errors in this) > > Almost. > > As said in my other mail an hour ago, "normalization" doesn't exist in > the stable MacZFS version. Also each option needs its own "-o" and > ashift is a pool option, not a file system option. > > You do "zpool create -o ashift=12 -O atime=off murr _devices_ ..." > > Note the capital "-O" and the small letter "-o". > > And for subsequent file systems (datasets in ZFS language) you use > > "zfs create -o atime=off _pool_name/fs_name_" > > If you used the development version, then you would add a > "-O normalization=formD" in the zpool command and a > "-o normalization=formD" in the zfs command. > > > Best regards > > Björn > >> >> As for the slowness in a VM, Mac file sharing would affect it >> because Windows 8 accesses the drives with Fusion by mounting >> \\jamess-imac\Volumes\murr as the Z drive so it technically is a >> file share if that's what you mean. But it could also be because >> the slowness of not using a 4k compatible zpool is compounded with >> a virtual machine. (Could someone updated the getting started guide >> to have you create a 4k zpool by default?) >> >> Thanks for the advice on Songbird! I may try it if it can organize >> via masks and support custom ID3 fields. I saw it's discontinued >> though but it's still on SourceForge. >> >> I'm at work so can't give a better reply but I have a lot more to >> look into and read now =) >> >> - James >> >> >> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM, 'Busty' via zfs-macos >> <zfs-macos@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> James, >>> >>> I use my 15TB pool mainly for flac files too, so I thought I'd >>> throw in my two cents (even if some is not zfs related): >>> >>> regarding iTunes recognizing flac: There is a quicktime component >>> that will enable flac in quicktime, iirc it also works in itunes, >>> at least you can get it too. But it will not play gapless, there >>> is an amount of silence between songs. >>> >>> Another thing is called "TwistedFlac", which in a folder you can >>> specify shows all flac files as wave files. These can be imported >>> into iTunes, the downside is that the tags are not recognized. >>> >>> Just in case that helps with your library. I use songbird, which >>> can about anything you want, but is not as stable as iTunes. >>> >>> Regarding your files showing up very slow, I experience that when >>> I access my files on the pool from a remote machine which has to >>> do with AFP (Apple filesharing protocol), so I have set up a NFS >>> share. But you don'T writ eabout accessing the files from a a >>> remote machine, so this should not be your issue. >>> >>> I kinda went the way you did. I had no knowledge of zfs but >>> really wanted the features for data safety. That was roughly 3-4 >>> years ago. As I set up my pool (and my backup, by the way), I >>> came across all kinds of problems (drives vanishing, kernel >>> panics, slow file browsing, scripts to automate backups and >>> scrubs, you name it) which had to be solved, so I had a lot of >>> reading and googling to do. I kinda was fooled by the MacZFS >>> tutorial into thinking that this will be completely easy like >>> you describe. >>> >>> These guys, in the front row Jason and Alex Blewitt and Bjoern >>> helped me a lot to get on the way (so thanks again guys) >>> >>> Sebastian >>> >>> >>> On 20.05.14 20:28, James Hoyt wrote: >>>> Hi Bjorn thanks for your reply and thanks for your help Jason >>>> in all this. I've actually been in the IT industry for 12 >>>> years, A+ certified, and currently pursuing my CCNA and MCSA so >>>> a technical setup didn't intimidate me. (granted servers are a >>>> new beast to me) I came across Mac ZFS while researching RAID >>>> options. As I'm getting new music in wav/flac daily from a >>>> number of sources, a manual backup system really wouldn't work >>>> for me as it's too hard to keep up. I tried once with a blu-ray >>>> writer and it was a nightmare.. plus I'm regularly categorizing >>>> music with MediaMonkey (why I have a virtual machine because >>>> it's Windows only... oh why won't iTunes support FLAC >>>> natively!) so all the tracks are updated now and then. So I >>>> thought an offsite backup that's updated every few months along >>>> with a four-drive RAID setup with one drive for redundancy >>>> would be all that I would need. >>>> >>>> MacZFS.org is well put together and the tutorials isn't >>>> intimidating at all. Run a few terminal commands? I can do >>>> that. The depth of ZFS wasn't really covered nor did it really >>>> state that more research is needed (like if I need 4k setup.. >>>> or whatever that is D: ) So it's rather frustrating to just >>>> find out I moved all my data off my individual 2/1.5 TB drives >>>> to find out I did it wrong when I was careful, very careful, to >>>> follow the Getting Started guide and FAQ precisely. >>>> >>>> Bleh D: >>>> >>>> Jason, I apologize for coming out rough. I felt like I was >>>> being treated like a lazy moron, which I'm not. I've researched >>>> a variety of RAID solutions quite a bit and thought I was all >>>> setup for ZFS and just had to change some configurations to >>>> speed it up. I'm sure you weren't born with this knowledge and >>>> needed the help of others to guide you in the right direction. >>>> I was googling things like "slow zpool ZFS" and other similar >>>> terms but just couldn't find anything concrete (because my >>>> problem isn't concrete). >>>> >>>> I tried searching if my drives are 4k with no luck. I saw an >>>> article back from 2010 stating hard drives were planning to all >>>> be 4k in 2011... this leads me to believe that they are 4k >>>> since I purchased them new last year. Crap D: Is there a for >>>> sure way I can see if they are 4k? Could this be my performance >>>> issue or is it just because my directories have large amounts >>>> of folders/files in them? >>>> >>>> Again, sorry if I came out rude. This is all new technology to >>>> me and I'm doing my best to become familiar with it. > > > - -- > | Bjoern Kahl +++ Siegburg +++ Germany | > | "googlelogin@-my-domain-" +++ www.bjoern-kahl.de | > | Languages: German, English, Ancient Latin (a bit :-)) | > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQCVAgUBU3vHa1sDv2ib9OLFAQLLCQP/UaP/ipKUIUmpslXPKrqEnBMMgkRT1PZa > IPtO0mugSSv80XeC9VHGMFgd+gUmNcissnyMpvOJTeMqvOQiarmb0/+OHawALnKi > Y2758Q4ZFT9MTBXlJajF6JSRjURQnf8a+Gytru2u/Q3bCu9CJaQJHMShgIhNr1dP > ZNSc7K3a7Kc= > =WF5b > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "zfs-macos" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/zfs-macos/78gD-0OzKMQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > zfs-macos+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "zfs-macos" group. 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