Talk:Zpool - Revision history

108.80.186.180: /* Perpective of OS X users */ new section

2020-01-14T05:19:32Z

‎Perpective of OS X users: new section

8.39.228.5: /* xattrs */

2014-11-15T23:03:18Z

‎xattrs

Sribe at 18:49, 9 November 2014

2014-11-09T18:49:17Z

217.226.87.46 at 13:44, 28 May 2014

2014-05-28T13:44:20Z

Ilovezfs at 18:44, 4 April 2014

2014-04-04T18:44:27Z

50.161.45.5: Recommend setting an OS X specific mount point when creating zpool

2014-04-03T07:58:46Z

Recommend setting an OS X specific mount point when creating zpool

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It would be nice to recommend setting the mount point at zpool creation time with the -m option to mount in the /Volumes folder as expected on OS X.

sudo zpool create -f -o ashift=13 -O casesensitivity=insensitive -O normalization=formD -m /Volumes/$poolname $poolname mirror /dev/diskX /dev/diskY

Also, it sounds like ashift really should be 13 for most people.

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	No, I tried it, and it's either not supported, or else not compatible in various ways with some combination of Yosemite/SMB/Finder. Regardless, it led to many hours and some frustrating troubleshooting.		No, I tried it, and it's either not supported, or else not compatible in various ways with some combination of Yosemite/SMB/Finder. Regardless, it led to many hours and some frustrating troubleshooting.
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		+	== Perpective of OS X users ==
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		+	Consider this from the viewpoint of an OS X user who comes to this page as a very first step in considering this file system because of wonderful sounding features such as snapshots and "scrub". Robustness? Heck yeah, that sounds great!
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		+	But Within a few seconds we're off to the races with "the four Unicode normalization forms", and marveling at the implications of "idempotent transformations" and "Hangul vowel or trailing conjoining jamos". And use an "ashift" of 12. Or maybe 13. Who knows? But choose wisely even though "ashift" is left undefined without so much as a hyperlink to help you with this immutable decision.
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		+	Your typical OS X user is suddenly a stranger in a strange land...

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	Shouldn't we also specify: -O xattr=sa		Shouldn't we also specify: -O xattr=sa
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		+	No, I tried it, and it's either not supported, or else not compatible in various ways with some combination of Yosemite/SMB/Finder. Regardless, it led to many hours and some frustrating troubleshooting.

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 : Response: /Volumes is supposed to be reserved for file systems mounted by Disk Arbitration, so this would be inappropriate.
 ===Ashift===
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 :The documentation should suggest a useful default value for Macintosh users. What is it about?

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 It would be nice to recommend setting the mount point at zpool creation time with the -m option to mount in the /Volumes folder as expected on OS X.
-Response: /Volumes is supposed to be reserved for file systems mounted by Disk Arbitration, so this would be inappropriate.
+: Response: /Volumes is supposed to be reserved for file systems mounted by Disk Arbitration, so this would be inappropriate.
-sudo zpool create -f -o ashift=13 -O casesensitivity=insensitive -O normalization=formD -m /Volumes/$poolname $poolname mirror /dev/diskX /dev/diskY
+===Ashift===
 Also, it sounds like ashift really should be 13 for most people.