Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:17:26 +0300 From: George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine Message-ID: <BANLkTimdhwtj2q=jEC_dTU7Brv7g6mHMUQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2B80846C-E8A9-4FF6-962C-9405469661D6@mac.com> References: <537A8F4F-A302-40F9-92DF-403388D99B4B@gsoft.com.au> <2B80846C-E8A9-4FF6-962C-9405469661D6@mac.com>
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I am using TM over smb on a ZFS Raidz1 pool of my fileserver with no problems whatsoever. NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT tank/apple 37.2G 82.8G 37.2G /tank/apple Oldest backup 14 December 2009 On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Does anyone else use ZFS to store TM backups? > > > > I find that whenever my laptop (over wifi!) starts a TM the ZFS machine > it's backing up to grinds to a halt.. Other systems streaming stuff over NFS > from it also tend to stall.. > > > > I presume that TM is doing something which causes ZFS some issues but I'm > not sure how to find out what the real problem is let alone how to fix it.. > > > Caveat: Time Machine is a viable backup system, but you're outside the > configurations which it supports. > > TM really wants the backup to be located on an HFS+ filesystem because it > makes very extensive use of hard links-- including hard links to > directories-- which are not widely supported by other Unix filesystems. > Even if you choose to continue using ZFS storage, please note that you'll > obtain significantly better results by using AFP instead of NFS filesharing. > > Wikipedia has useful info here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_%28Mac_OS%29 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- George Kontostanos aisecure.net <http://www.aisecure.net>;
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