OpenZFS on OS X

I was considering setting up a ZFS NAS using FeeNAS, but then I stumbled across O3X. The advantage of O3X being that I can run it on the photo editing workstation I'm planning to buy (looking at a cheese grater Mac Pro), instead of buying a separate NAS and a work station. So if I go with O3X, will I easily be able to set up shares for other computers on my network? And, most important of all, is O3X ready for prime time, or should I wait for later releases?

@Dismayed

O3X ZFS filesystems can be shared using NFS, SMB[2], AFP.

As for is it ready for primetime, it works well, has good and improving performance, but is still under active development. The term "prime time" is very subjective, and we offer no guidance on that. Not knowing your ZFS experience levels, I would recommend that you install the software, learn a little about ZFS and then make a decision as to whether it suits you.

For me, I have been using the software successfully for more than a year, with few issues.

Cheers
Brendon

Dismayed wrote:I was considering setting up a ZFS NAS using FeeNAS, but then I stumbled across O3X. The advantage of O3X being that I can run it on the photo editing workstation I'm planning to buy (looking at a cheese grater Mac Pro), instead of buying a separate NAS and a work station. So if I go with O3X, will I easily be able to set up shares for other computers on my network? And, most important of all, is O3X ready for prime time, or should I wait for later releases?

Thanks for the reply. My highest priority is stability. Since I intend to pick up an Apple Mac Pro anyway, I'll start with that to see how I get on with O3X. If it works out, then I'll only need one box. And if it doesn't, I'll re-purpose the hard drives to the NAS box.

I picked up a used 2010 Mac Pro desktop last night that already contains 4x1TB HDs. I'll play around with ZFS RAID on 3 of them. If that goes well, then I'll buy a a PCIe SSD to use as a boot drive and I'll buy larger HDs.

My experiments with O3X have gone well, thanks to the help that I've received on this forum. I've built a RAIDZ2 4-drive pool, scrubbed it, replaced the 1 TB drives with 4 TB drives, resilvered, and renamed devices by exporting and importing the pool. I must say that I'm impressed by how easy it all was, thanks to the hard work by the development team.

So thank you, for both the solid code and for the help in getting this set up.

Did you do anything special to expand the pool size?
I have replace three drives with larger drives and my pool size stays the same...

I followed advice of more experienced ZFS users:

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