so.. I am a bit out of it with a bad head cold and its early morning
I don't have high sierra running on my server and don't have 1.7.2 loaded up but wanted to ask a question about a new feature being listed
so @ilovezfs does this new feature indicate that you will start treating pools as a native /dev/disk device?
if so.. an observation
when apple and the 10a286? development release for snow leopard I think.. they didn't mount the pool or treat it as a dev.. I believe they granulated it down to the zfs file system level. which really makes more sense when you look at what ZFS aims to improve.. and at its most basic level.. the pool exists only to fully abstract the underlying storage.. so that we no longer had to think of disks or be constrained by them.. only the created zfs file systems as the could be much more flexible and configurable.. with the pool being the abstracted resource that held them..
in parlance.. it would be like instead of controlling VMs on a esxi host.. we could only control the host.. we don't care about the host or a cluster of hosts.. that is the resource abstraction ..the VMs are what are defined, controlled, and monitored.. if that makes sense...
so simply.. 'hide' the pool from finder ops and only expose individual zfs dataset/filesystems .. perhaps with a OS X only feature flag... finder enabled/disabled..