I have a Mac Pro running 10.8.2 and Zevo 1.1.1. Has a 4-drive RAID10 ZFS volume. Runs well, no real issues with Zevo.
My problem comes because I want to share the ZFS volume.
I have heard that AFP does not work well with non-HFS volumes although I have not done much testing of that. I assumed that I should use SMB instead. I set it up, sharing the root of the ZFS volume. I can connect to it from other Macs but my access to it is odd.
Odd? Like this: sometimes I seem to be able to write files to it, sometimes not. I've noticed that I seem to be able to write files such as text and RTF but *NOT* files such as DMG. I successfully watched a video DVD image stored on the server, across the network, but was unable to double-click and view a MOV.
What happens when the write fails? The Finder on the client is simply stuck on the "preparing to copy" window and never progresses. Eventually (after an hour? not sure) I get an error message. Can't recall the content but was not terribly helpful. In the case of a failed read, I believe I just get a beach ball forever.
I really want to run ZFS, can't have peace about not doing so, but I can't seem to share the volume correctly. What am I doing wrong? Should I use NFS instead? I tried to use Samba (the open-source implementation, via SMBUp) but Samba won't start so I'm stuck there too.
Thanks in advance.