Can not change Data Store to ZFS in 10.8.2 Server

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Can not change Data Store to ZFS in 10.8.2 Server

Post by poramate » Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:05 am

Hi there,

We are testing the Community Edition on our Mac Pro 10.8.2 Server.
We use one internal SATA hard drive as the HFS+ Volume for 10.8.2 Server startup.

Then setup the other 3 internal SATA hard drives to become the raidz1 pool.

Everything seems to went fine except that we can not change the location of Data Store (by using the Server App) from the HFS+ startup volume to raidz1 pool.

Do you have any suggestion?

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Re: Can not change Data Store to ZFS in 10.8.2 Server

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:29 am

Borrowing ideas from another thread, I wonder whether a temporary symlink on HFS Plus might allow the change.

Maybe … 

  • mount the ZFS volume somewhere other than the usual mount point
  • at the usual mount point, have a temporary symlink (to the unusual mount point of the ZFS volume)
  • attempt the change in Server.app
  • if successful, restart in single user mode (or whatever suits you) to remove the symlink
  • start the system with the ZFS volume at its usual mount point.

Just an idea. It's a while (like, many months) since I touched Server.app
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Re: Can not change Data Store to ZFS in 10.8.2 Server

Post by poramate » Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:27 am

Now I'm trying to be more specific on the issue.
There is some curtain problem on 10.8.2 Server for changing the Data Store location like this.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/41 ... 0&tstart=0

Me too for those similar attempt !

But the actual problem for me was the raidz1 pool icon did not show up for selection when I'm trying to do it by Server app. I also have tried to dig deep into the serveradmin command but seems like there was no way to change the location of Data Store by this command.

Try symlink was the good idea anyway, I will do it and report back to this post.

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Re: Can not change Data Store to ZFS in 10.8.2 Server

Post by poramate » Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:41 am

Hi all,

I've tried to work around this issue by symlink.
Still not succeed.

Server app in 10.8.2 Server just failed to launch as usual.

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