Should Zevo work ok with Mavericks?

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Post by grahamperrin » Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:24 pm

ylluminate wrote:… announcement elsewhere …?


I sent an e-mail to GreenBytes, they drew attention to the tweet. I'm not aware of any other announcement.

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Re: Performance of FreeNAS with FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:35 pm

ylluminate wrote:… mixed results with Netatalk. You probably want to stick with SMB/CIFS.


Thanks. I'm primarily testing Time Machine on the Mac (with donated drives in the Dell) so at the moment it's AFP first.

ylluminate wrote:I think the problem was primarily resolved by Don about a year ago, but we had a heck of a time with some file naming issues for a while due to the way they were being stored, which included a bit of duplication headaches.


Do you mean, between local ZEVO CE (or earlier) and FreeNAS?

A few months ago I wondered about compatibility with normalisation on (for example) FreeBSD; a recent comment by Richard Yao reassured me … at least, from his Gentoo perspective.
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Re: Should Zevo work ok with Mavericks?

Post by ilovezfs » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:08 am

ylluminate wrote:
ilovezfs wrote:
ylluminate: even in light of GreenBytes's announcement that Mavericks support is forthcoming?


What? What?! LOL! They replied to my twitter msg! Thanks for letting me know. The last several days have been so hectic that I didn't even hop back on to check after a couple of days of checking! Well that makes me happy-er. Did you see this announcement elsewhere or are you referring to their reply to me?

As far as I know the only source for this news is their Twitter response to you.
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Pre-release seeded build 13A598 of OS X 10.9

Post by grahamperrin » Sat Oct 05, 2013 3:35 am

As usual with seeded builds of the OS, there's some leakage around 13A598 (example).

For users who are preparing for an upgrade to Mavericks: precautions

13A598 may be less than what's to be released by Apple.

Don't rush.

If you rely on Time Machine for anything

Please enter Time Machine before the upgrade to see whether backups are truly complete. In particular:

  • some users find that folders such as /Applications /Library and /System are missing

– it's an old bug, the cause(s) of which I don't know.

I found myself bitten by that bug during normal use of build 12F45 of OS X 10.8.5. Further reading, from James Pond:


The fix suggested there – a full reset of Time Machine – seems excessive. In my case I simply removed all excluded paths, including the exclusions that offend:

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sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine ExcludeByPath


Postscript: general precautions before an upgrade

Alongside thoroughness with backups:

  • be thorough with snapshots of your datasets
  • be prepared to roll back – with ZEVO CE 1.1.1 on Mountain Lion, if necessary.
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Re: Should Zevo work ok with Mavericks?

Post by loveturtle » Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:09 am

For anyone curious, it does not work.

I hope they can get their act together before release.
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Cross reference

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:17 pm

Discussions of Mavericks and other subjects are relatively scattered recently (sorry).

FYI:

Now where do we go?Mavericks exclusion of KEXTs for ZEVO CE 1.1.1
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Build 13A603 of OS X 10.9

Post by grahamperrin » Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:06 pm

grahamperrin wrote:… 13A598 may be less than what's to be released by Apple.

Don't rush. … 


I'm downloading 13A603.

Concerning an update to ZEVO, for OS X 10.9:

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The value of the /Incompatible Software/ folder in OS X

Post by grahamperrin » Sun Oct 20, 2013 11:43 pm



From the date of a tweet that offered a screenshot with the following yellow alert – 

        The system extension "ZFSFilesystem.kext" is
        not compatible with this version of OS X and can't be used.
        Please contact the developer for updated software.


– I guess that a few people are trying to load kernel extensions that are placed, by Apple, in the following folder:

/Incompatible Software/

ZEVO aside for a moment … in general, please do not attempt to reuse files that have been moved to that folder. Placements in that folder are for the protection of end users.

In the case of ZEVO Community Edition 1.1.1: the placement of two KEXTs in that folder is simply to protect users from kernel panics.

(There is a way to load 1.1.1 with Mavericks but it's not the done thing. Beyond simply loading the KEXTs, a kernel panic is guaranteed; it's informative to developers but not of use with storage pools.)

The cause of the panic was diagnosed, and I'm told that there's a fix, but I don't know how the fix is to be delivered.

General advice at this time

If you use ZFS with OS X (not with an alternative operating system) and wish to continue doing so, then please:

  • do not rush an upgrade to Mavericks.
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Re: The value of the /Incompatible Software/ folder in OS X

Post by james347 » Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:40 am

grahamperrin wrote:If you use ZFS with OS X (not with an alternative operating system) and wish to continue doing so, then please:
  • do not rush an upgrade to Mavericks.



Good advice. I am staying put. No rush.
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Re: The value of the /Incompatible Software/ folder in OS X

Post by ilovezfs » Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:14 am

james347 wrote:Good advice. I am staying put. No rush.

Yes cling to an old OS for the sake of abandonware. Great idea.
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