Questions tagged [zfs]
ZFS is both a storage system (comparable to Apple Core Storage) and a file system (comparable to Apple HFS Plus).
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Get Info shows incorrect volume size for ZFS pool on MacOs Catalina
I'm currently running ZFS on MacOS Catalina, version
zfs-1.9.4-0
zfs-kmod-1.9.4-0
After replacing my 3TB disks with 6TB ones ZFS sees the current sizing as
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Is it possible to run OpenZFS on MacOS Sierra on a Mac Pro
I have a Mac Pro with a PCIe flash startup drive running MacOS Sierra. I would like to fill the 4 empty SATA HDD bays with drives and use OpenZFS to create a pool/volume.
Is this configuration ...
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Uninstall OpenZFSonOSX on OS 10.10?
I installed OpenZFSonOSX even though it is not compatible with OS X 10.10.
The zfs commands are not working and make the Mac to restart immediately.
I tried "uninstall-openzfsonosx.sh". It causes a ...
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Pool Multiple Hard Drives in ONE Network Share
I've researched for a few days now and could not get any result.
Maybe there is a good tip for Mac I have overlooked.
What I want to do (in a nutshell) is to create a Virtual Folder that contains all ...
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How to kill the popup in OS X when a disk can't be ejected
With ZFS-OSX, sometimes when I try to force eject my HDD and it's failing, the following popup appears on my screen – floating on the top with all the buttons grayed out – and no possibility to close ...
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How to format external drive into ZFS?
I've installed MacZFS, I've read the FAQ and Getting Started section, but I've still troubles to understand how to simply format the external drive into ZFS on OSX. I'm confused with zpools, can ...
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Lacie Big 5 10tb to be used as external hard drive but want security so: ZFS Raidz?
I've just bought the Lacie Big 5 10th and I want to use it as an external hard drive for my files. I was thinking of making it raid1 but then I heard about ZFS and Raidz. so that I can easily change/...
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MacZfs with encryption on os-x
I have followed these steps for setting up zfs (maczfs 74.3.0, OSX 10.8.3) with encryption. Everything works fine, till I restart the computer.
After the restart, diskutil informs me that the file ...
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How to move the /Users to an encrypted ZFS drive?
When setting up a ZFS pool on an encrypted CoreStorage volume, a manual typing of the password is required each time for mounting the volume (due to the problem of OS X thinking that the password is ...
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How to set up ZEVO / ZFS on an internal disk while maintaining full disk encryption?
It seems that it's currently impossible to have the entire boot drive converted to ZFS.
How would one go about converting a single disk HFS+ Filevault 2 setup into a setup which has full encryption ...
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Parallels creates /Users/Shared/Parallels on boot, blocks ZFS /Users from mounting
Does anyone know why Parallels creates /Users/Shared/parallels on boot? Or what creates it?
I have a ZFS volumes for /Users. However, since installing Parallels 7 I've found that the ZFS volume can't ...
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How can I attach a disk to existing ZFS zpool mirror with Ubuntu and ZEVO?
Is it possible to attach a third hdd to a already created mirror consisting of two hdds with ZEVO?
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I run an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with native ZFS support. When I attach the third hdd it ...
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How can ZFS be used with encryption on OS X?
Ideals:
protection of home directories should be better than in Lion (for multiple administrators: FileVault 2 alone is less secure than FileVault 1)
resizing a file system should be simple and ...
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ZEVO ZFS and Aperture
I'ld like to use ZEVO (ZFS) on my Storage-Device. There shall the Aperture-Library be stored.
Are there any issues using an Aperture - Library on ZFS formatted device.
Thanks allot
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Can I use a ZFS ZEVO-managed USB hard disk for Time Machine backups and does it offer de-deduplication?
ZEVO support for Time Machine
Can I use a ZEVO-managed USB hard disk for Time Machine backups?
ZFS dedup
Will ZEVO and Time Machine give me de-duplication (which is sorely missing from Time ...
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