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'''A)''' Sometimes. Apple codes some software to only work when stored on HFS. We can't change that. We have provided a property that causes ZFS filesystems to identify themselves as a HFS when enabled. We are unable to guarantee that the application will work 100% correctly as HFS may have specific behaviours that the application depends on, and ZFS may not behave identically.
 
'''A)''' Sometimes. Apple codes some software to only work when stored on HFS. We can't change that. We have provided a property that causes ZFS filesystems to identify themselves as a HFS when enabled. We are unable to guarantee that the application will work 100% correctly as HFS may have specific behaviours that the application depends on, and ZFS may not behave identically.
 
    
 
    
     sudo zfs set com.apple.mimic_hfs=on <dataset>
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     sudo hfs set com.apple.mimic_hfs=on <dataset>
  
 
===Q) Does Spotlight work? ===
 
===Q) Does Spotlight work? ===

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