Is anyone running OpenZFSonOSX on Mac Pro w/ OpenCore?

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Is anyone running OpenZFSonOSX on Mac Pro w/ OpenCore?

Postby Sharko » Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:56 am

As the title says, is anyone running OpenZFS on OSX on a classic Mac Pro 5,1, using OpenCore? I've been topped out at Mojave as the last officially supported OS version from Apple on my Mac Pro 5,1, but recently I set up a spare Mac Pro with OpenCore; the OpenCore machine is happily booting and running Monterey, which is kind of mind-blowing, actually. Of course, I'd like to run ZFS under Monterey, but wondering if anyone else has blazed this trail before me? Cdf, one of the leading experts on the OpenCore subject at the macrumors.com Mac Pro forum, suggested that I should load third party kexts as part of the OpenCore system, but I wondered if anyone had tried the standard installation process?

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Re: Is anyone running OpenZFSonOSX on Mac Pro w/ OpenCore?

Postby dmz » Mon Jan 10, 2022 4:43 pm

I am, and have been for quite some time. It works fine under both Catalina and Monterey, using the standard installation process.
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Re: Is anyone running OpenZFSonOSX on Mac Pro w/ OpenCore?

Postby Sharko » Tue Jan 11, 2022 9:10 am

Great, thanks. I'll give it a go!
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Re: Is anyone running OpenZFSonOSX on Mac Pro w/ OpenCore?

Postby kowalczt » Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:58 am

Been using OpenZFS on High Sierra for over a year without problems.
Last year I decided to buy RX5500xt for my Hackintosh and upgrade to Monterey.
All is working fine (using same pool I used before).
Had some issues just after Monterey release that zfs pool wasn't importing on boot. I wasn't really searching why its not loading, but it got fixed.
I plan to add ssd as a cache device and check how it will help it ( my drive is old 5900rpm 2TB HD).
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