Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:32:41 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Malcolm Waltz <mwaltz@PACIFIC.EDU> Cc: freebsd-stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine Message-ID: <AF590EB4-F768-4CC2-921C-03241F6CED58@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <F203966E-E95F-4762-B1EB-908B2667ABC6@pacific.edu> References: <537A8F4F-A302-40F9-92DF-403388D99B4B@gsoft.com.au> <F203966E-E95F-4762-B1EB-908B2667ABC6@pacific.edu>
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On 29/04/2011, at 2:16, Malcolm Waltz wrote: > I doubt the issues you are encountering have much to do with ZFS. >=20 > It sounds like you are using TimeMachine over NFS. Obviously, Apple = does not support that configuration: > http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dtime+machine+nfs+site:apple.com >=20 > In my opinion, TimeMachine should only be used with block storage. If = you use any kind of file-sharing protocol (AFP, SMB/CIFS or NFS), = TimeMachine is implemented using a sparse disk image broken into = hundreds or thousands of separate files. This is a hack at best. >=20 > Time machine works very well with locally attached storage, but if you = need to use network storage, you might want to try iSCSI: > = http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/using-zfs-with-apple-time-machine.= html > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/iscsi/iscsi.txt Hmm, I _am_ using AFPD, not NFS for this.. I will see about using an = ISCSI disk image instead (although that would make it impossible to = resize once it's created right?) I see that the sparse disk image does use ~80000 files in a single = directory which does take.. a while.. to stat.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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