ZFS (was Reliable Firewire drives)

[John Musbach]

On Jan 13, 2008 4:36 AM, Finlay Dobbie <finlay.dobbie at gmail.com> wrote:
> There does exist a shipping, final r/o ZFS implementation in Leopard
> out of the box.
> There does exist a pre-release r/w ZFS implementation available via
> either ADC or MacOSForge.
> There does NOT exist a supported, shipping, final r/w ZFS implementation.

This is false, the implementation shipping with Leopard is READ ONLY!!!

John-Musbachs-MacBook:~ JohnM$ uname -a
Darwin John-Musbachs-MacBook.local 9.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0:
Wed Oct 31 17:46:22 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228.0.2~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
John-Musbachs-MacBook:~ JohnM$ dd if=/dev/zero of=./zfs.dmg bs=1000000
count=512512+0 records in
512+0 records out
512000000 bytes transferred in 15.069295 secs (33976373 bytes/sec)
John-Musbachs-MacBook:~ JohnM$ su John
Password:
bash-3.2$ sudo zpool create ./zfs.dmg
Password:
ZFS Readonly implemntation is loaded!
To download the full ZFS read/write kext with all functionality
enabled, please go to http://developer.apple.com
Read-Only ZFS Implementation
unrecognized command 'create'
usage: zpool command args ...
where 'command' is one of the following:

	list [-H] [-o field[,field]*] [pool] ...
	iostat [-v] [pool] ... [interval [count]]
	status [-vx] [pool] ...

	online <pool> <device> ...
	offline [-t] <pool> <device> ...

	scrub [-s] <pool> ...

	import [-d dir] [-D]
	import [-d dir] [-D] [-f] [-o opts] [-R root] -a
	import [-d dir] [-D] [-f] [-o opts] [-R root ] <pool | id> [newpool]

	history [<pool>]




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Best Regards,

John Musbach