Trouble with Alfred 2 and Zevo Home Dir

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Trouble with Alfred 2 and Zevo Home Dir

Post by jwilliams108 » Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:14 am

Hi All,

I've recently run into some issues with a user that has their home directory on a Zevo volume. Alfred 2 is not correctly finding all applications. After speaking with the Alfred 2 developers, it seems to be some conflict with the on-disk db that Alfred 2 uses to store data. Spotlight is correctly indexing and does find the missing apps, however.

I can confirm that Alfred 2 works correctly for all users that have their home directories on an HFS+ volume, and will not pick up particular applications on any user that has their home directory on a ZFS volume.

I have also noticed an issue with a preference pane (Vox) not retaining it's settings on these same users. Perhaps it is related? It works fine for users on the HFS+ volume.

Has anyone run into similar issues or noticed odd behaviour for users with their home dirs on a ZFS volume?

Thanks for any assistance,
Jim

PS Here are links to the applications in question, in case anyone isn't familiar with them:

http://www.alfredapp.com/
http://coppertino.com/vox/
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Re: Trouble with Alfred 2 and Zevo Home Dir

Post by ilovezfs » Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:19 am

"...not pick up particular applications on any user..."

which applications?
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Re: Trouble with Alfred 2 and Zevo Home Dir

Post by jwilliams108 » Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:08 am

A few different ones... Vox, Omnigraffle, Word (although it did pick up Excel). I couldn't determine any sort of pattern.
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Re: Trouble with Alfred 2 and Zevo Home Dir

Post by ilovezfs » Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:43 am

There can certainly be special issues that arise when using ZFS for the home directory.

I would recommend you try to "solve" the issue for the users by having them store the database on a disk image formatted HFS+. You can use a sparsebundle or a dmg.

Then store the sparsebundle on ZFS, preferably in its own dataset.

zfs create tank/alfred

And put the alfred.sparsebundle in /Volumes/tank/alfred

You can have the disk image mount automatically at login-time by putting it in the user login items.
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Re: Trouble with Alfred 2 and Zevo Home Dir

Post by jwilliams108 » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:02 am

Interesting! I'll give that approach a try. Thanks for your help.
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Re: Trouble with Alfred 2 and Zevo Home Dir

Post by ilovezfs » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:08 am

Sure no problem.
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