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I-ku-u wrote:Thank you Graham for a concise summary of the progress of MacZFS, especially given how spread out the relevant information seems to be. It appears tho' too soon to tell whether new MacZFS' progress will lead to something I can replace ZEVO with to meet my needs. So I'm back to waiting and will check in again in a month or so.
I-ku-u wrote:given how spread out the relevant information seems to be.
ilovezfs wrote:I-ku-u wrote:given how spread out the relevant information seems to be.
This is false. The relevant information is at the GitHub repository https://github.com/zfs-osx/zfs, and the mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maczfs-devel, as it has always been.
I-ku-u wrote:@ilovezfs
I can appreciate that you feel Mac-ZFS is currently stable enough to be useful, but every time someone here asks how to migrate to Mac-ZFS from ZEVO, you tell them, essentially, "come chat with me in IRC and I'll tell you what you need to know". As someone with years of experience as a sys-admin and support person (both), that indicates that Mac-ZFS can't possibly be close to stable or ready for more general usage.
So if you want to convince people with publicly available, reasoned words that Mac-ZFS is *currently* worth using, please point us to accurate documentation so we can evaluate the state of Mac-ZFS for ourselves. Otherwise, you are quite literally wasting our time.
FTR, yes, I am troubled that ZEVO hasn't had an update in a long while, and concerned about the safety of my ZFS data with respect to migrating to Mavericks, but I have seen zero public information that tells me there is any stable alternative right now to "keep using ZEVO on Mtn Lion and wait". Does such information exist?
ilovezfs wrote:… Given that Graham … hasn't "tested" it for weeks …
zigmoo wrote:Hello All,
I am chiming in to say you should all take @ilovezfs at his word.
brendon.humphrey wrote:@I-ku-u
I understand the sentiment of what you are trying to say. In terms of osx-zfs, it is under heavy development. It is being created by some very skilled volunteers. You will not find a volume of documentation, or any other artifacts that you may be expecting from a commercial product at this time. These things will come as the project gains contributors.
You need to know that aside from the installation experience, osx-zfs provides essentially the same user experience as ZEVO CE. There are of course features under development which you may want (such as automount) and these will come.
Osx-zfs offers some advantages over the ZEVO implementation already - lz4 compression, unlimited storage, zpool 5000, soon to be encryption and probably other features that I am unaware of.
As Lundman has pointed out in other posts, there are a few of us using osx-zfs for storing real data now. That includes me. Osx-zfs is improving at a rapid rate, and I for one am happy enough with its behavior. The usual caveats apply - keep backups in case something does go wrong. The guys are certainly welcoming to early adopters, and are very responsive to addressing any defects identified.
In the posts above, you have been provided with the means to contact the volunteers around the project. It is entirely up to you as to how you use that information.
Regardless of which path you take, I wish you all the best in your zfs endeavours.
- Brendon
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