by chriswayg » Mon Nov 05, 2012 1:17 pm
Graham, maybe I am doing something different or using different applications. I cannot find problems in regards to File Versions and do not see any warnings in TextEdit and Preview, which I tested on OS X 10.8.2 with a ZFS pool on a Firewire drive attached to a MacBook Pro. The files were definitely closed.
Here is what I did: I created a text file in TextEdit. Made a bunch of changes, saved in between. Opened and closed the application. Unmounted and remounted the ZFS drive. Reopened the files, went to "Browse all versions", tried another version etc.. Likewise I tried this with a photo on the ZFS drive. I moved the photo to another folder after making some changes and 'Versions' works just fine. - Tried the same on the main OS partition and it basically functioned the same way.
The only difference I observed, was that files on the OS drive would often show another sub-menu entry under 'Revert To', besides the 'Browse All Versions...", which points to 'Previous Save' or 'Last Opened', which I have not seen for files on the ZFS volume. - 'Browse All Versions..." functioned exactly the same on ZFS as on the HFS+ partition, showing correct modifications times on versions visible in the time machine style interface.