jollyjinx wrote:Seems that FCP X does not support anything else but HFS+. The only way around is to create a sparse bundle and use that as FCPX project disk.
FCPX only allows for data to be on external disks ( afp, smb, nfs, exfax, zfs, .. ), but not for the project.
This was one of the issues, that concerned me when moving data to zfs. When importing media into FCPX, the zfs drive is correctly recognized as a source by FCP-X. But projects and events do not show up, if stored on a zfs disk.
The way I worked around it is by using an image files stored on the zfs volume (as described here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fc ... artin.html ) Apart from being zfs compatible, this has a number of advantages, like being able to hide or archive projects.
Now I'm not that familiar with using sparse images/bundles, especially in regards to zfs. Disk utility gives two choices when creating expanding disk images (apart from the .dmg fixed size images).
* sparse disk image (one big, expanding file, resizable)
* sparse bundle disk image (lots of 8MB files in a package, expanding package, resizable)
I tried them in FCP-X and they seem to work in the same way. What are the advantages/disadvantages in regards to ZFS, relating to data safety and performance. Which one is the better fit with ZFS? Sparse image or sparse bundle?
Edit: I found a thread on zfs-macos which relates to the question regarding data integrity and sparse bundles:
'Can ZFS scrub/heal HFS+ sparsebundles at the file-band level':
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgr ... ltRG_5wAeg