HOW TO: Share ZFS using AFP

This forum is to find answers to problems you may be having with ZEVO Community Edition.

Moderators: jhartley, MSR734, nola

HOW TO: Share ZFS using AFP

Post by chipped » Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:40 am

Hey people,

If you're new to ZEVO, then you'll quickly notice that when you try share folders using AFP, it won't work!! :shock:

It's easily fixed, you just need to use this https://github.com/joshado/liberate-applefileserver

The link contains all the instructions.
chipped Offline


 
Posts: 22
Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:31 am

unpredictable behaviour with AFP

Post by grahamperrin » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:06 pm

… what is visible on the client side is unpredictable.

Please, can anyone describe ways in which things are unpredictable?
grahamperrin Offline

User avatar
 
Posts: 1596
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:21 pm
Location: Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Re: HOW TO: Share ZFS using AFP

Post by audiophil » Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:09 pm

I was under the impression that the AFP issues cropped up in 10.7 and presumably are identical in 10.8. Does AFP function properly with ZFS volumes on 10.6.x?
audiophil Offline


 
Posts: 15
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:51 pm

Snow Leopard or Snow Leopard Server for ZFS via AFP

Post by grahamperrin » Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:16 am

Snow Leopard Server or Snow Leopard for AFP with ZEVO 1.1

At one time, many months ago, it may have been advisable to not use Snow Leopard Server for AFP with ZEVO:

  • Snow Leopard (not Server) was preferable.

Whether that's true of ZEVO 1.1, I don't know.

Maybe best to follow the knowledge base, prefer SMB until further notice.
grahamperrin Offline

User avatar
 
Posts: 1596
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:21 pm
Location: Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Re: HOW TO: Share ZFS using AFP

Post by chipped » Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:55 pm

I've been using the beta for about a year on two servers and haven't encountered any unpredictable behaviour using AFP.

I think they're referring to Snow Leopard in this page http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/wiki/pmwi ... ringAndZFS

AFP sharing stopped working in Lion and still doesn't work by default in Mountain Lion on any non HFS filesystem, unless this tweak is applied.

However, I'm not going to guarantee or say with absolute certainty that you won't have any problems, but I've been fine :)

I use it for Home Servers, Time Machine and general File Sharing.
chipped Offline


 
Posts: 22
Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:31 am

Re: HOW TO: Share ZFS using AFP

Post by markpat3rson » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:21 pm

How safe is the liberate tweak? Has anyone applied it to Mountain Lion Server? (or even Lion Server)? Run into any problems, corruption, etc? Anyone been using it for any length of time?
markpat3rson Offline


 
Posts: 12
Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:57 pm

Re: HOW TO: Share ZFS using AFP

Post by chipped » Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:10 am

I've been using it on Lion Server and Mountain Lion Server for 6-9 months.
chipped Offline


 
Posts: 22
Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:31 am

Re: unpredictable behaviour with AFP

Post by antikus » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:28 pm

grahamperrin wrote:… what is visible on the client side is unpredictable.

Please, can anyone describe ways in which things are unpredictable?


I have been running ZEVO beta for a few months. I do not have the "liberate" hack installed. I have about 8 zfs systems on my pool and only 4 of them are visible over AFP. Only leaf systems (the ones that have no zfs subsystem created on them) are visible (I have 5 of those). And one leaf system is still unavailable over AFP.
antikus Offline


 
Posts: 3
Joined: Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:13 pm

Re: unpredictable behaviour with AFP

Post by chipped » Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:55 am

antikus wrote:
grahamperrin wrote:… what is visible on the client side is unpredictable.

Please, can anyone describe ways in which things are unpredictable?


I have been running ZEVO beta for a few months. I do not have the "liberate" hack installed. I have about 8 zfs systems on my pool and only 4 of them are visible over AFP. Only leaf systems (the ones that have no zfs subsystem created on them) are visible (I have 5 of those). And one leaf system is still unavailable over AFP.


Are you running SL, Lion or ML?
chipped Offline


 
Posts: 22
Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:31 am

Re: HOW TO: Share ZFS using AFP

Post by wonkywonky » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:58 am

markpat3rson wrote:How safe is the liberate tweak? Has anyone applied it to Mountain Lion Server? (or even Lion Server)? Run into any problems, corruption, etc? Anyone been using it for any length of time?


I've been using it on Lion Server and ML Server + MacZFS for several months. No problems detected.
wonkywonky Offline


 
Posts: 25
Joined: Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:33 pm

Next

Return to Troubleshooting

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: ilovezfs and 1 guest