Envying Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/zfs/wiki/?p=6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemster Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 niiiice! anyone tried on a hack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lessew Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Halelujah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 is there anybody who has xfs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaxTrax! Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Now we just need YFS as a bridge between XFS and ZFS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 What exactly are the benefits of ZFS compared to HFS+ and NTFS via MacFuse+ntfs-3g? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Can I install Leopard on ZFS and boot from it??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 We could use FUSE to get linux Integration completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Can I install Leopard on ZFS and boot from it??? No. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/zfs/wiki/issues "Features in the Works: Bootable ZFS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Sorry, I mean ZFS. Does anyone have it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherone Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Sorry, I mean ZFS. Does anyone have it? I read that message and immediately rush over and installed it on my BadAxe2-based Hack (currently under efi8 & Kalyway 10.5.1). Works so far, i spend a whole 160 GB Disk for a zfs directory and copied a few files, etc. and back and forth. No problems. Next step ist to integrate 3 or 4 sata-drives to a RAID to see how performance and reliability works and to see how it interacts with different software. My Personal Goal is to have a ZFS-Userspace, and (if possible/practicel) all programs running from zfs while starting from a fast raptor with my guid-based hfs-system (to have a working system until zfs is bootable and ready). But maybe its a bit to early to set that much faith in the current zfs-implementation. Will see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 that would be pretty über... it's still work in progress though. but damn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBSONATOR Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 ZFS mounts extremley large files extremely fast, so its great for large harddrives, this will be a great addition for OSX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2LMan Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I'm guessing implementation of ZFS in OS 10.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italia64 Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Is it Leopard-only or will it run on Tiger? I couldn't find the answer in the FAQ or Documentation sections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Ok guys, time to help me get this stuff work well. I was searching informations about the chance to get OS X boot from ZFS. I know this feature is currently unsupported, but I thought it was worth trying. So this is what I thought. The major problem with ZFS boot is that actually EFI doesn't know anything about ZFS, so it can't just boot because it can't see the partition. But what would happen if we boot from an HFS+ volume and then specify the ZFS boot partition with the famous "rd=diskxsy"? Well, I found out it actually doesn't work, because ZFS doesn't work as usual filesystems. It does not use the form "diskxsy" to identify a partition, so if you try to force OS X to boot from that partition it will crash with kernelpanic telling you that "nfs is not yet initialized". Now here you come. Have you got any idea about how could we manage to get this run - except wait for official support? Sherry Haibara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f41qu3 Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 In firsts betas of Leopard had a ZFS.kext . If somene have it, grab .kext and ... done! No diffs in Leo ZFS.kext and first Snow ZFS.kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 That's not the point. I actually have that kext, and I can read/write on ZFS volumes. My question is if we can somehow manage to get that ZFS volume boot OS X. I found some interesting informations on the web about the possibility to use a "helper HFS+ partition" to load the kernel and the drivers, and then kick off the ZFS partition. Unfortunately, this infos are not very useful, since I don't know how to make OS X boot from a specific UUID. Sherry Haibara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f41qu3 Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Well, in mine some knownledgements, I think have to re-create "boot related files" (like a boot0 and some others), to it can find boot using this UUID: 6A898CC3-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631 I don't know if it work, but, I believe in yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Well, that's the generic UUID for a ZFS partition in a GPT disk. However, the idea is good, but actually the only boot file I found useful is boot.efi. Unfortunately, I opened it with an hex editor, and the only strings uuid-related I found are these: Root MatchRoot UUIDnet-boot root matching dictionary is: %s root-matchingallocate kernel nameboot-fileboot-device-pathboot-file-path root device uuid is '%s' boot-uuid(no root UUID found for boot device) where I suppose %s stands for the UUID of the boot partition. I tried to change it with a custom UUID (ZFS), but actually it made the partition unbootable. Moreover, we have two copies of boot.efi: one is stored in /usr/standalone/i386, the other one in /System/Library/CoreServices. Sherry Haibara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniBUU Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Well, that's the generic UUID for a ZFS partition in a GPT disk. However, the idea is good, but actually the only boot file I found useful is boot.efi. Unfortunately, I opened it with an hex editor, and the only strings uuid-related I found are these: Root MatchRoot UUIDnet-boot root matching dictionary is: %s root-matchingallocate kernel nameboot-fileboot-device-pathboot-file-path root device uuid is '%s' boot-uuid(no root UUID found for boot device) where I suppose %s stands for the UUID of the boot partition. I tried to change it with a custom UUID (ZFS), but actually it made the partition unbootable. Moreover, we have two copies of boot.efi: one is stored in /usr/standalone/i386, the other one in /System/Library/CoreServices. Sherry Haibara Wasnt showing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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