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Thrawnhex
I searched over the internet for zfs support for Leopard. I've found great page called "macosforge.org", which is like sourceforge from Apple.

Now the Point is I found a really nice zfs package there, and installed it. The people who already used zfs in Solaris or other Unix' should know the tools "zfs" and "zpool".
With this tools you can create format your disks to zfs and create mirrors or pools.

Until now we are able to Read/Write to zfs dataspaces, we can use it for apps like iTunes and so on.
But we are not able to boot from.

A quick reference about zfs is here: http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/whatis

I've made a Script to install zfs easily.

Download here: http://tinyurl.com/6c8gl3
Or original Page without Installer: http://zfs.macosforge.org

CODE

ZFS for Leopard

Sources by Apple
Script by Thrawnhex

--- Installation ---

1. Unpack the .zip in /
2. Run the Script "install_zfs"
3. If you see no errors the installation was successful.
4. Reboot.

--- Hints ---

Disk Utility currently does not support Zettabyte File System. To create/erase disks, mirrors or pools you have to use zpool or zfs tool from this package. Look here to get the party started: http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/get_the_party_started

--- Links ---
Info:
ZFS Files for Leopard: http://zfs.macosforge.org
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

Guides:
Getting Started: http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/get_the_party_started
ZFS command options: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/zpool-1m
Best Practices Guide: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index...Practices_Guide
OpenSolaris Community ZFS Page: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/


I hope you have fun with this great File System made by Sun.

Thrawnhex

P.S.: Let's see if Snow Leopard brings boot support for ZFS wink.gif
maclancer
Thanks a lot!!!
BugsB
Does anyone know how safe write form Windows & OS X is?
johan
is there a speed increase ?
phreakazoidz
i think its great!!!
try it!
Andy Vandijck
Yeah, I allready compiled up the sources, works fine.
I also would like to see boot support since datapooling, and all of the other new stuff is impressive. wink.gif
mdrobnak
Can we combine this with Boot 132 / Chameleon (EFI Partition) kext loading to support ZFS root?

If not, I can still see a good use for this for /User data...

-Matt
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